All this little app does is host the XRay connector and let you load a local swf. Then it displays the swf with some simple controls to play/stop/advance/back. The big benefit is you can then use XRay to inspect the swf without changing any code around.

In the screenshot below a swf with 4 different arrow graphics has been loaded. Each graphic is on a new frame.

Right now, it's rather limited in the swf's it can load.

  • They must be AVM2 (ie. targetting flash player 9, made by Flash CS3 or FlexBuilder 2/3)
  • Flex apps don't work - There's a sandboxing issue I need to work on.
So what's it good for?
  • A Flash designer gives you a swf and you want to see how it's organized.

AIR File: XRayViewer.air

Assuming you have Flash Player 7 or higher, you should be able to simply click the badge below to install the AIR runtime and the application.

It looks like you don't have a recent enough version of Flash installed so the easy-install method won't work for you, please try the manual install below.

Or you could get the Flash player and try again.

Questions, comments? Or even if you just find this useful, please shoot me an email to let me know.

This application is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2007 Marc Hughes

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