Adobe XFL support

[rodlie]

Now that Adobe Animate is EOL there are a lot of users with old projects they might not be able to use anymore (sometime next year). Why not try to support importing XFL/FLA?

It's just XMLs, but there is no public available spec, so we need to figure out a basic spec.

Looking at the structure it's very similar to our new project format.

[pgilfernandez]

Nice! it looks like a way to gain a pretty big amount of new users.

We could use IA to help in the parser...

[WapaMario63]

There is this XFL to SVG converter that can be looked into: https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg
It doesn't support every feature, but its a good starting point.

There's also few bits of documentation that some people did in the past:
https://github.com/SasQ/SavageFlask/blob/master/doc/FLA.txt
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4077200/whats-the-meaning-of-the-non-numerical-values-in-the-xfls-edge-definition/4077709#4077709

[rodlie]

Thanks for the links.

We also need to make a collection of test projects. From basic to advanced.

[rodlie]

More ressources:

• https://github.com/tdprogramming/xfltools
• https://www.basearts.com/curriculum/ADOBE/FLASH/FL_understanding_file_types.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110829013340/http://benjaminwolsey.de/node/49
• https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000132.shtml

[rodlie]

So, reading in the project stuff seems easy.

• Register support for *.xfl
• If foobar.xfl and DOMDocument.xml in a folder we have a valid project
• Read DOMDocument.xml
• Read XML assets referenced in DOMDocument.xml from LIBRARY folder

Then figure out what to do with the data....

https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg seems to have done a lot of work into converting the data to SVG, something we can adapt for our use.

• https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg/blob/master/xfl2svg/xfl_reader.py
• https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg/blob/master/xfl2svg/shape/edge.py
• https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg/blob/master/xfl2svg/shape/gradient.py
• https://github.com/PluieElectrique/xfl2svg/blob/master/xfl2svg/shape/shape.py
• add support for radial gradients PluieElectrique/xfl2svg#11

Test project:

• https://github.com/tdprogramming/xfltools/tree/master/xfls/chessdemo.xfl
• https://github.com/SasQ/SavageFlask/tree/master/TestData https://github.com/SasQ/SavageFlask/tree/master/TestOutputs
• https://github.com/eliasku/animate-tests

[rodlie]

XFL XML Schema: https://github.com/jindrapetrik/xfl-schema https://jindrapetrik.github.io/xfl-schema/xfl.html

This is awesome!

[rodlie]

I created a new repo for testing etc: https://github.com/friction2d/friction-xfl

[rodlie]

Would you look at that ....

xfl-2026-02-03_18.24.53.mp4

Already got shapes and motion 😄