Working on legacy codebases isn’t a dream job. If your legacy codebase is a weird mix of scripting, media files and classes, chances are you’re a Flasher.
As far as I know, there is no end to end solution for diffing flas. The best tool we’ve got at the moment is a jsfl script at Software Secret weapons:
The utility extracts ActionScript (AS) code from an *.fla file and outputs to (not always valid) XML. For all its shortages, this is unambiguously a first step towards a workable solution for diffing Flash files.
I plan on extending the utility to extract asset attributes as well as AS code. once this is done, rather than relying on an existing diff tool, it could be a good idea to develop a hierarchical diff view. Besides that would give me the ideal excuse to write an XML diff tool and integrate with ee-xml, our budding XML editor
The last step is to integrate with a version control system. SVN via TortoiseSVN will be my pick. The hardest part was digging references from the docs:
>> Tortoise SVN diff tool setup (from the turtle’s mouth)
It’s been suggested that whoever brings a qualified diff tool to the flash community will attain fame and glory.
I feel lazy.
