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This article discusses a method to encode number array into printable text that is more efficient than the traditional decimal format so that it can be efficiently transferred to another application that only accepts ASCII input or be saved in a XML file for later use.

Flash version control is a big topic, but the intention of this article is not. Since most source file version control system such as SVN does not handle binary files like fla or swf, it's really hard to keep track of the version of a fla file.

Is there really nothing we can do?

This article introduce a JSFL script that provides the basic functionality of version control by recording a version number (and increase it too), as well as by who and at what time a fla file is edited automatically.

The feature of batch processing can't be found in any version of Flash. Maybe Macromedia/Adobe doesn't think it is very important. However, I think most professional flash developers will agree that the ability of handling multiple fla files automatically can really save you a lot of time in projects that contain a large amount of fla files.

Fortunately, flash has the powerful jsfl script, which has the ability to perform most of the functionalities in flash. With this tool, batch processing is no longer impossible.