What Is SWFC Script?

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∟SWFC Script to Generate Flash SWF Files

∟What Is SWFC Script?

This section describes what is SWFC Script - A simple scripting language designed by the SWFTools team for generating SWF applications.

What Is SWFC Script? SWFC Script is a simple script language designed by the SWFTools team for generating SWF applications.

Some cool features of SWFC Script:

Arbitrary shape support - Arbitrary shapes can be defined using ".outline" commands.
Text font support - TTF font files can be loaded using ".font" commands.
Button support - Buttons that react to mouse events can be defined using ".button" commands.
Transparency blend modes support - Multiple transparency blend modes are supported using "blend" options.
Filters support - 4 filters are supported: "dropshadow", "blur", "gradientglow" and "bevel".
ActionScript 2.0/3,0 support - Blocks of ActionScript statements can be embedded using ".action" commands.

If you want to try to write a SWFC script, you need to download and install SWFTools from www.swftools.org as described in the previous chapter.

SWFTools offers a SWFC compiler located at \local\SWFTools\swfc.exe.

Here is the manual page of SWFC 0.9.1:

NAME
   swfc - compile .sc files to swf.

Synopsis
   swfc [-o file.swf] file.sc

DESCRIPTION
   Compiles a file written in sc (SWF Script) into a number of SWF 
   files.

OPTIONS

   -C, --cgi
      Output to stdout (for use in CGI environments)
   
   -v, --verbose
      Increase verbosity. Use more than one -v for greater effect.
   
   -o, --output filename
      Specify output file (Default: output.swf). This affects only the
      parts of the .sc file which haven't specified an output file 
      themselves.
   
   ...

AUTHOR
   Matthias Kramm <kramm@quiss.org>