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I just designed a website in dreamweaver . I used one of the flash button designs that came in dreamweaver. I really like the buttons, but they make a weird noise. Is there a way to edit the noise out. I have flash MX. ANy help would be appreciated

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asked why a bundled Dreamweaver Flash button plays an unwanted noise; earlier replies from and point to the usual editability limits, and mentioned decompilers. The practical, safe options depend on whether you have the original FLA or only the SWF.

If you do have the FLA, the straightforward fix is to remove the sound from the symbol/timeline and republish. Open the FLA in Flash MX, open the Library, double-click the button symbol to edit it, then inspect each state (Up/Over/Down) on the timeline. Any sound shows in the frame and in the Properties panel (Sound dropdown); change that to "(none)" or delete the keyframe/layer containing the sound, remove the sound asset from the Library, and export the SWF again. That keeps the original visuals and removes the audio cleanly.

If you only have the SWF, the supported choices are: recreate the button (either in Flash MX as a new FLA/SWF with no sound, or as image/CSS/JS hover states) and substitute it for the bundled SWF, or accept the bundled asset. Tools that decompile or "unprotect" SWFs exist, but they carry legal and technical risks (copyright, licensing, and imperfect reconstructions). They are not a guaranteed or officially supported fix.

A longer-term, modern recommendation: avoid Flash for UI chrome. Flash Player is deprecated and unsupported in current browsers; converting the button to CSS/HTML (or a small SVG/JS animation) is more future-proof, accessible, and lets you control hover sounds (or omit them) reliably. This approach also removes the maintenance headache of treating protected SWFs.

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Member Avatar for peter_budo

only if you have source files with FLA extension, if you have SWF extension then no

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Yes the files that come with dreamweaver are protected SWF you dont get the fla files so you have to deal with what you get or you can design new buttons and put them in the folder that contains your dreamweaver buttons and use your own custom ones.

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first unprotect it using flashtoolkit pro then use sothink swf decompliler to get fla source file.

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