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[Phillip Powell]

Mitch Pirtle wrote:

>On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:26:43 -0400, Phillip Powell
><phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com> wrote:
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>>Cool just a terminology issue, that I can deal with.  Thanx.. I'll have
>>to take a crash course in ActionScript I believe, along with finding a
>>free (open source?) Flash decompiler since the client nor myself can
>>reach the original web designer with the .fla files.
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>Sounds like yet another web developer that deserves a visit from
>cousin Vinny and his aluminum baseball bat, and Vinny don't like
>baseball, knowhatimean?
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Yeah! The Sopranos methodology to project management always works!! ;)

>*sigh*
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>A smart solution could be to bring in another Flash designer to
>recreate the original, but tell them that they will need to include
>external variables in their version to accommodate the updating text. 
>That way you have something to work with, and is much more attractive
>than a shot in the dark at reverse engineering a binary that lacks the
>functionality your client needs anyway.
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No problem with that, however, what's the most tactful way of telling 
the guy the asking price goes up upon doing this?  You might want to 
respond offline since this is moving away from PHP as a solution as I 
see it.

Thanx
Phil

>Just reviewed SAMS' "Flash MX Professional 2004 UNLEASHED" (ISBN:
>0-672-32606-X), and can say that the 300-plus pages dedicated to
>ActionScript 2.0 are an excellent reference on the subject.
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>-- Mitch
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