Bytescout SWF Scout Review

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SWF Scout is an ActiveX library for SWF flash movies generation from Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#, ASP and ASP.NET

Even existing SWF flash movies can be used as templates to create new flash movies (by replacing movieclips, text, fonts, movieclips, images, actionscript variables in SWF template)

Main features:

Ability to create SWF (flash) files without any additional libraries/applications required;
Ability to create Flash Lite compatible flash movies
Ability to create various shapes, buttons, text, text edits, morphing shapes, sprites;
Ability to add sound (mp3 and wav) and video (FLV);
Ability to create pre-loader for flash movies;
Ability to convert EMF to SWF;
Ability to convert HTML to SWF movieclip(s) conversion;
Ability to load JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF images;
Ability to use load external SWF clips as sprites;
Ability to convert SWF to EXE, SWF to standalone SCR (screensaver)
Events and Actions support;
"Real" hDC that can be used to draw shapes, text and using WinAPI GDI functions SWF output can be easily added to existing applications;
Unicode and font embedding support;
Transformations support;
In-memory file generation support for use in ASP/ASP.NET (requires Web License);

Ability to use existing SWF files as templates to generate new flash movies;
and much much more!

most of reported bugs were fixed
new functions: IMovie.CheckFontIsInstalled(), IFlashMovie.ASCompilerAddIncludePath(string), IFlashMovie.ASCompilerAddClassTablePath(string)
improved EMF, FLV, SWF templates suport
bug-fixes in .PLACE_FadeOut and .PLACE_FadeIn
lot of minor bug-fixes

Windows 98 or higher

Please contact Bytescout SWF Scout publisher, ByteScout if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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