May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
23h 24m
English
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SWF File Format
Whereas the Flash
Player is not open sourced, the .swf file format
itself is publicly available (which is one reason it has garnered a
lot of third-party support). For further information, here are some
resources:
- Macromedia Flash Player File Format (SWF)
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/licensing/fileformat
Here you can obtain the SWF SDK from Macromedia, “a set of tools for developers to write Macromedia Flash 5 (SWF) files, documentation of the Macromedia Flash file format (SWF), and code to write SWF files.”
- OpenSWF
A general information center for developers of SWF implementations. Includes tutorials, message boards, resources, and source code.
- Ming
Ming is an open source C library for generating SWF format movies plus a set of wrappers for using the library in C++ and popular scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Ruby. See http://www.opensource.org for information on open source software.
- Perl :: Flash
http://www.2shortplanks.com/flash
A Perl library to allow the “dynamic, programmable generation of Flash/SWF movies.” Created by Simon Wistow.
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