Revolution and .swf

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Mon Apr 18 09:48:05 EDT 2005


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SWF File Format Info:

http://www.minigui.com/flashplayer/swf_toc1_4/SWFfileformat.html
http://ming.sourceforge.net/
http://www.quiss.org/swftools/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libswf/
http://www.eprg.org/projects/SVG/flash2svg/swfsvganim.html
http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/


An alternative to SWF is SVG, which is a W3C standard, and much more 
open to outside developers:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/SVG-Implementations
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html



On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:24 AM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> Judy,
>
> I believe one problem is that there is no public API for embedded 
> Flash support. Last I checked, it requires paying a hefty license to 
> Macromedia for a development kit. Implementing from scratch is a huge 
> task also- notice that they aren't really any 3rd party Flash Players 
> (even Quicktime's support is always a little behind the curve).
>
> FWIW. I haven't looked into this in a while.
>
> The only reasonable way I know of to support Flash would be to offer 
> up support for browser plug-ins.
>
> Does anyone know of a dev environment that _does_ include embedded 
> Flash playback in a desktop app?
>
> - Brian
>
>> I gotta admit, I still don't get this.
>>
>> Flash is perhaps the preeminent 2D animation file format; probably
>> overtaking Director?
>>
>> Not "getting" Flash or providing some native support for it positively
>> cripples Rev as a multimedia scripting environment.
>>
>> And I don't even USE Flash (beyond trying to get together a little 
>> handout
>> on doing simple animation in it for my class).
>>
>> I recently revisited the Animation Builder.  Didn't really suck all 
>> that
>> much, did it? No Flash, certainly, but without native support for 
>> Flash,
>> what is the simple DreamCard developer wishing to include animation 
>> to do?
>>
>> And now they don't even have that (the Animation Builder, that is)...
>>
>> Judy
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Yonnys Pablo Martin Olivera wrote:
>>
>>> Hello:
>>>       I am beginning to program in revolution, but previously I had 
>>> had
>>> experience in Flash of Macromedia and I would like to know if 
>>> somebody
>>> could help on that relationship is between Revolution and the files 
>>> .swf
>>> and if some form exists of linking them.
>>
>>
>>
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>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$
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