| Bob Pierce 2007-01-10, 6:39 pm |
| How do you experienced guys organise your .fla and .swf files for continuous
development?
I have a totally Flash site consisting of over 30 .fla files for which the
client is regularly requesting changes. I decided to have a live site and a
development site. Whenever a change is going to be significant I save a copy of
the .fla before making the changes and then overwrite the .swf on the
development site. When everyone's happy I copy the affected .swfs to the live
site. This hasn't proved to be a very good arrangement. Half the time the
changes turn out to be greater than expected and I haven't saved a copy of the
original .fla. Recently, a bug in the combobox component meant that I had a
working live site and a broken development site and I couldn't compare the .fla
that produced the working .swf with the one that produced the broken one. That
cost me many hours, the purchase of a decompiler, and was only solved by
narrowing it down sufficiently to be able to ask a specific question in this
forum.
Is my approach basically ok, but needs much stricter control with version
numbers and notes etc or is there a better way? I work on my own so there're no
team members to consider.
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