Opening Flash documents within Flex

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21 Sep: Opening Flash documents within Flex

posted by: martijn, at 21 September 2007 11:18 GMT+1, 7 January 2008 22:03 GMT+1

Always when I'm working on a Flex project I use Flash files for skinning/fonts/graphics etc. Because I can open *.fla files within the Windows Explorer just by double clicking you would asume that Flex could do the same.

Unfortunately this isn't the case which I think is very strange.
But it is possible, go to your preferences within Flex:
General -> Editors -> File Associations -> add and browse for your Flash executable.
Unfortunately if your *.fla files had an icon before by now it's lost.

Please Adobe could this be fixed in the final of Flex 3? (also with other files like psd and ai?)

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