RE: FLASH: SWF not an open format????

[John Dowdell]

At 3:45 PM 3/31/0, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

> John, I dont think you got the gist of his question. Does the SDK

> (SWF 4) detail how interactivity can be added to applications, or

> is it not going to be open?


I thought I did get it. But hey, it's Friday, I'm not as sharp.... ;-)


Yes, to my understanding all features available in the SWF 4.0 format, and

supported by the Macromedia Flash 4 Players, are described in these

documents. I don't quite have the time to download them now to cite you

page numbers for various features, but please do feel free to download them

and browse through them yourself:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/open/



Later: Aw, shucks, I downloaded the 5M ZIP, uncompressed it, and shuffled

through it to be sure, and yup, the "Actions.htm" page is a 300K+ HTML file

that describes both the SWF3 and SWF4 event system.


Summary: Yes! Go grab a copy, have fun!  8)



jd







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