<p>I have a .fla file with some text that I want to get at. Is there a free app than you can use to open .fla files, or just a tool to dump strings and pics?</p>

With such question, I just experiment...
I went to deviantART, went to the
Flash .FLA Files
gallery and downloaded one at random.
I got a .fla file of about 1MB.
I went to Sysinternals's site to get the latest version of
Strings
, a command line tool to extract plain text strings from binary files.
Ran:
```
```
strings -n 10 "D:\Archives\scrolling flash gallery with preloader.fla" > str
```
```
Got at text file with lot of data you have to sort yourself...
There are some other similar freewares utilities, some with GUI, but this command line version is handy. Works with both (or either) Unicode and Ansi strings.
Oh, obviously it is for Windows. You forgot to specify if you target a specific platform.
PS.: for what it is worth, I believe the Flash SDK is free at Adobe's site. You just don't have the Flash IDE, only a compiler, etc. for AS development. Perhaps it includes a tool to look at .fla files (not tried the toolkit yet).