Additional interactivity has been added in V4.0 of the SWF format. This is given by the use of edit boxes offering the end users a way to enter text as if the SWF movie was in fact an interactive form.
The text is defined in a variable (accessible in action scripts). It can be dynamically assigned and retrieved. It is legal to have an empty string as the variable name (not dynamically accessible).
Since version 8, the text drawn by a DefineEditText tag can be tweaked by adding a CSMTextSettings tag.
The f_edit_word_wrap flag will be set to true (1) in order to have words going beyond the ...
A sprite is a set of SWF tags defining an animated object which can then be used as a simple object. A sprite cannot contain another sprite. hHowever, you can use PlaceObject2 to place a sprite in another.
The following are the tags accepted in a Sprite:
Moved the monolithic documentation to a multi-page hierarchical document that includes everything we had before plus many links, many terms attached to all pages (tags, English words.) And revision of most of the text for better English and clarification in some places.
Strengthen the formatting with CCK fields so all declarations look alike.
Broken up the actions from one large table to a set of pages.
Started work on the Load() feature of the SSWF library. This helped fixing several small mistakes in the documentation.
Fixed the ...
Since version 7 of SWF, there is a new way to create a function allows you to not only name parameters but also to put their content in a register. This is done by specifying a register number along an (optional) parameter name.
The f_param_register specifies whether the corresponding parameter will be saved in1:
Since Flash version 9, actions can be saved in a new format named abcFormat by the Tamarin project from the Mozilla organization.
The code itself (action script) is the same, but the structure of an swf_action3 holds object oriented information about classes, methods and such in a really clean way (really! in comparison to the old way, that's dead clean!).
At this time, the swf_action3 structure is documented in the abcFormat.html file.
I will duplicate and test the structures at a later time.
The array of shape records starts with a set of styles definition and is followed by shape records. The list of shape records ends with a null record.
Note that f_shape_records_morph cannot include any reference to styles and lines, nor include new styles. It is likely that the f_styles_count will always be 0x11. Also, it is always byte aligned.
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This tag will be used to specify where and how to place an object in the next frame. The PlaceObject is much different and is presented separately.
The f_depth field is used to indicate at which depth the character is inserted in the current frame. There can be only one object per depth value (thus a maximum of 65536 objects can appear on a single frame).
The f_place_has_move and f_place_has_id_ref flags are used to indicate what to do at the given depth. The following table presents what happens depending on the current value.
f_place_has_move ...
The DefineButton does not include any means to transform the colors of the shapes it uses. This tag was thus added just so one can transform a button colors. It is wise to use the new DefineButton2 instead so the transformation can be applied on a per state basis.
The f_button_id_ref is a reference to the button to be transformed with the specified color matrix. The button should be defined first.
At the very beginning, a company created the SWF format to generate small vector animations on the Internet called Shockwave Flash (hence the name of the format, SWF.) It also included images. This company was bought by Macromedia around 1997 (if I recall properly). This is when Flash v3 was created. Since then, Macromedia created a new version about once a year up to version 8. At that time (in 2005/2006), Macromedia sealed a deal with Adobe which wanted to use the SWF format in their PDF files.
Today (May 1st, 2008), the SWF format is available for free to all.
There is ...