December 2002
Beginner
478 pages
17h 55m
English
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Overview of the Perl Interface
The Perl interface consists of 14 modules in the SWF namespace:
- SWF::Movie
This module implements a top-level timeline as a Movie object.
- SWF::Sprite
Also called a MovieClip, a Sprite object is an encapsulated movie that can be combined with other Sprites on a Movie timeline.
- SWF::DisplayItem
Once an object has been placed on the Stage of a Movie, the instance of that object can be manipulated as a DisplayItem.
- SWF::Shape
This is a reusable vector shape object.
- SWF::Button
A button is an object that defines shapes within a frame that can respond to mouse and keyboard events.
- SWF::Bitmap
An image can be read from a file and placed as a Bitmap object within the Movie.
- SWF::Text
The Text object allows you to draw strings on a frame.
- SWF::TextField
A TextField can be used for interactive forms or for boxes of text that need to be dynamically updated.
- SWF::Font
A Font object describes the glyph shapes used to draw Text and TextField objects.
- SWF::Fill
This is a description of one of a variety of fills that can be associated with a Shape.
- SWF::Gradient
This is a description of a gradient that can be used to create a Fill object.
- SWF::Morph
A Morph object represents the gradual transition between two shapes.
- SWF::Sound
An MP3 can be read from a file and placed on the timeline as a Sound object.
- SWF::Action
This is an object containing a block of ActionScript that can be associated with a timeline or another object.
The following example features most of Ming’s object types. The example ...
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