View Source of Macromedia Flash Content

April 8th, 2005 | Filed under Tips.

We all have encountered flash movies on innumerable websites. Although it is possible to alter various parameters of the flash movies after right clicking and adjusting the settings, it would be great for flash developers if they could view the source of the flash movie.

Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at the FlashForward conference titled The Cost of Copyright. In it, he stressed the importance and necessity of a culture of sharing. However, all of the sharing usually goes on on a developer to developer level, as you cannot easily get the source from Flash content.
So, during the FlashForward keynote this morning, He put together a simple library that allows you to add a view source Menu item to your Flash content. This makes it easy to allow other developers and designers to view the source for your content (if you want them to be able to).

Since he was sure that the Flash Community will be able to make this a lot better, so he released this under a creative commons license.

On this site he presents an example. Just right click on the Flash movie and select the View Source Menu item. This will allow you to download the source code.

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