One of my pet peeves when working with FLA’s is that there’s no easy way of finding out what Flash version the file was saved for. Northcode has just released a great freebie called Flaver – it hijacks the FLA format, checks what version it was saved as and launches the corresponding version of the Flash IDE (if you have it installed obviously).
Its a very useful little tool and seems to work very well, there’s almost no additional wait in launching your FLA. A feature I’d love to see is, rather than automatically launching Flash, have it pop up a message stating what version FLA you’re dealing with.
http://www.northcode.com/free/flaver/
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Umm that is “Flaver” not “Flavor”.
d’oh, fixed now – thanks Peter!
Looks good…
The only problem that I see is that if I double click on FMX file, it opens FMX and loads the FLA file… If I double click on another FMX file while FMX is open, it tries to open another instance of FMX and it fails there… :(
This problem does not exist in FMX 2004 though…
CyanBlue
Hmmm… I can open multiple copies of Flash MX without any problems, but I know one of the guys that works here has the same kind of issue you’re seeing opening a second instance of Flash MX. Can you start multiple instances of Flash MX manually (from the Start menu)?