Question

is it possible to extract dynamic loaded text from a swf (flash application) programatically ?

Answer 1

I’ve got one thing in mind.

If you load the swf, you can access its children in the INIT handler, so you could use a recursive function to loop through all the children automatically and get all children that are TextFields( dynamic text ), as statis text is TextSnapshot.

Here’s a simple implementation:

var textFields:Array = [];
function getTextFields(container:DisplayObjectContainer,dumpArray:Array):void{
    for(var i:int = 0 ; i < container.numChildren ; i++){
        if(container.getChildAt(i) is TextField) dumpArray.push(container.getChildAt(i));
        if(container.getChildAt(i) is DisplayObjectContainer) getTextFields(DisplayObjectContainer(container.getChildAt(i)),dumpArray);
    }
}
//getTextFields(this,textFields);

Sounds like some kind of crawler. What do you have in mind ?