SWF::Builder - creates FLASH(R) movie (SWF) files. This package contains:

  SWF::Builder                   - Main module.
  SWF::Builder::ActionScript     - SWF ActionScript object.
  SWF::Builder::ActionScript::Compiler
                                 - SWF ActionScript compiler.
  SWF::Character                 - SWF character, frame, and display instance.
  SWF::Builder::Character::Bitmap
                                 - SWF Bitmap object.
  SWF::Builder::Bitmap::Lossless::*
                                 - Drivers for SWF Bitmap object.

SWF::Builder::Character::Font - SWF font object. SWF::Builder::Character::Font::TTF

• Font manager using Font::TTF. SWF::Builder::Character::Font::FreeType
• Font manager using Font::FreeType. SWF::Builder::Character::MovieClip
• SWF movie clip object. SWF::Builder::Character::Shape - SWF shape object. SWF::Builder::Character::Text - SWF static text object. SWF::Builder::Gradient - SWF gradient object. SWF::Builder::Shape - Drawing extention of shapes. SWF::Builder::ExElement

See each POD for further information.

PREREQUISITES

perl 5.8 or higher
SWF::File 0.27 or higher

Either Font::TTF or Font::FreeType is necessary to use fonts and texts. Font::TTF supports only TTF, but is written in pure perl. Font::FreeType supports TTF, OTF, and PostScript fonts, but requires FreeType library and C compiler.

Math::Bezier::Convert is necessary to draw cubic bezier curves.

INSTALLATION

You install SWF modules by the usual method:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

SCRIPTS

Following scripts and SWF movie are included in this archive.

asc.plx - ActionScript compiler frontend. mctest.plx - Sample script.
tracewindow.plx

• Debug window movie. It displays results of trace actions compiled with "Trace=>'lcwin'". masktest.plx - Sample script of mask. flowmes.plx - Creates flow-in-message movie.

  It is necessary to change font path for other than Windows. fields.plx - Sample of text fields. htmltest.plx - Sample of HTML texts.

  It is necessary to change font for other than Windows. exportasset.plx & importasset.plx

• Sample of export and import assets. arctest.plx - Sample script for elliptic arc. See POD. tiger.plx - Sample script of 'path' drawing a famous tiger converted from SVG.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000-2003, Yasuhiro Sasama (ySas), <ysas@nmt.ne.jp>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.