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December 29, 2009: Jean Michel emailed me about his site which I thought could be useful to visitors here. He has about 60 swfc code files collected along with the SWFs and some txt explanations. A lot of it is about Actionscript in SWFC, so if that's what you're working on, it could be worth checking out. If anyone else has a site about SWFC, please email me about it.

July 4, 2008: Lately I've been working on a virtual world/MMOG/visual chat in SWFC. Here's what I have so far. It's a work-in-progress and not a huge amount of coding, but it ought to be useful to somebody.

May 23, 2008: I've found a blog entry on another site detailing how to make a flash menu with SWFC. (Part 2) There's a link to it now on the code page.

Free Flash Software

This site focuses on providing documentation, examples, and support for those trying to make Adobe Flash animations using Matthias Kramm's open-source SWFTools package. SWFTools is a collection of different tools for converting files to SWF format, extracting information about existing SWF files, and making completely new SWF files with simple scripting. SWFC is the scripting compiler for SWFTools, allowing you to make flash movies without using Adobe's software at all. The flash header for this site was made using SWFC and required only 15 lines of scripting. You can download SWFTools from swftools.org.

Why SWFTools/SWFC?

There are a few other usable open-source tools for making flash, and there are probably things that they do much better than SWFC. I've chosen to concentrate mostly on SWFC since it's pretty high-level (a few lines of code go a long way), is cross-platform, has a large amount of usable flash features, and is being actively developed.