I have been tasked with making some edits to a legacy system that is essentially a Flash game that has no documentation and the original author has long since left the company. Unfortunately it is also using technologies I haven’t touched in years (and even then it was in a university setting).
But enough of my woes.
I have found the .fla file and opened it up in Adobe Flash Professional CS5, I have started hunting for the action script snippets I need to edit and I suspect I actually have an incomplete .fla but I want to confirm.
To find where I need to edit I have tried clicking on each element on the stage and clicking F9 to open up the actions frame, when this came up with nothing (totally blank action script fields) I tried pressing Alt+F3 to bring up the Movie Explorer and have tried to hide everything bar ActionScript, again nothing.
Hopefully I am making a totally rookie mistake, but my knowledge and my searching have hit their limits.
edit – additional information
There is no Document Class assigned.
I have went through each MovieClip (using the Movie Explorer) but I can’t see any reference to a Class (would this be instance name?)
If you debug the project (ctrl+shift+enter), all the code embedded in the .fla (that is, the action panel) will be enlisted for you to navigate in the debug panel.
I find it very hard that all the code would be embedded in the action panels though. Is the program old enough to have been made in AS2? Are you positive it`s AS3?