Developing Extensions for Macromedia® Flash® 8

Chapter 3. C-Level Extensibility

The C-level extensibility mechanism lets you implement Macromedia Flash extensibility files using a combination of JavaScript and custom C code. You define functions using C, bundle them in a dynamic linked library (DLL) or a shared library, save the library in the appropriate directory, and then call the functions from JavaScript using the Macromedia Flash JavaScript API.

For example, you might want to define a function that performs intense calculations more efficiently than JavaScript does, which improves performance, or when you want to create more advanced tools or effects.

This extensibility mechanism is a subset of the Macromedia Dreamweaver API. If you are familiar with that API, you might recognize the functions ...