A program for editing SWF. Best SWF Editor: Program Review. Preparation for work

Free program To create flash rollers almost any degree of complexity! Includes almost everything required tools For everyday work with Flash and can be used both newcomers and professionals. The main difference and advantage of this program is to support ActionScript 2.0, without which it is simply impossible to submit the creation of professional flash content.

Dima Bilan seems to say that impossible is possible :). More recently, web developers had to either pirate, or pay rather large money for the opportunity to work with flash animation. And finally, it came that hour when the third full-fledged option appeared - use a free flash editor.

Earlier, on our site there was already one such program, but its minus was in some obsoleteness, a limited tool set and the absence of support for the ActionScript programming language, which is so needed to create any functional sites, games, etc.

Today, I will introduce you to a completely modern flash editor that can be equal to compete with the famous Adobe Flash. - Vectorian Giotto..

Comparison of Vectorian Giotto with a paid analogue

As you can see, the developers of Vectorian Giotto tried to glory and tried to accommodate the maximum possible set of functions similar to Adobe Flash. In addition, most of the hot keys also coincide, so those who are used to working with the Edobian editor will not be much difficult to go to free platform Vectorian Giotto!

Well, and on the "dessert" in free editor There is also something that is sometimes so lacking "older brother" - a built-in library of animation effects, which will fall to taste especially those who create flash banners.

Preparation for work

To start working with Vectorian Giotto, we will need to download the archive with the installer, which weighs, by the way, is only 8 megabytes! When the archive is loaded, open it and run the file. Vectoriangiotto.exe..

Despite the fact that the installation (and the program itself, no matter how regrettable :)) English, it should not call any difficulty, since it is not necessary to change anything in default settings. Just click the "Next" button several times and wait for the end of the installation process;).

First acquaintance with the interface

At the end of the installation, if we did not change anything in standard settings, We will appear in full screen Work window Vectorian Giotto:

As I said, the program interface is English, therefore, in order to avoid misunderstandings and curvators when performing further actions described in the article, I would like to introduce some conceptual apparatus :). Let's start, as usual, from top to bottom and left to right.

Row of menu. This is the panel where all the menu of the program is Vectorian Giotto. When working with the animation, you may need such sections as "File" (to save and export to SWF to your animation), "View" (to configure the parameters of the working area display), "modify" (to control the parameters of the current document and working with the library Effects) and "Window" (to configure the displayed modules and program panels).

Main toolbar. The project actions control buttons are made here and the animation playback panel.

Drawing panel (occupies the entire left part of the program window). Here are all the necessary tools to create any desired objects of your animation, as well as buttons that allow you to configure the parameters of the desired tools.

Stripping (or timeline). Allows you to control frames for frames and created layers.

Color control panel. With it, you can quickly change the color of previously created figures. Also serves to select the type of filling of objects of your animation (solid, gradient, etc.).

Workspace. It is a virtual sheet of "paper", designed to draw your animations :).

ActionScript editor. If you need to create not simple banners, and something more complex, including buttons and all kinds of interactive objects, then without the editor of the scripts you can not do.

Clip structure panel. Displays all the shapes that are "in the frame" and allows you to quickly switch between them and manage their sequence.

Property panel. Each object in flush has certain properties. To manage them and serves this panel.

Transformation panel. Allows you to quickly change the size and position of the selected animation item.

Library of elements. It is a list of created or imported objects that may be (and repeatedly!) Inserted into animation.

Animate can import the SWF file format. However, SWF files are processed and many data types inside the SWF file cannot be reused in Animate.

SWF format

The SWF format is a special compressed format designed for a small file with scaling. To save a small file size, several elements from the initial Animate format are compressed into such data that Animate cannot re-import them.

If, when creating a SWF file, the "Protect from Import" option is selected, Animate will not allow re-importing the file. An attempt to import a secure SWF leads to an error message.

Opening and import

Opening the SWF file ("File"\u003e "Open") opens a clip in clips test mode.

Importing SWF file ("File"\u003e "Import") leads to the following results:

• Sounds are not imported.
• Graphic symbols containing animation are imported with each animation keyframe in a new key frame. The contents of each frame in the original animation are converted to a new graphic character, one for each frame in the source symbol.
• The whole layout is lost. Import adds key frames to the layer, which was active when selecting the "File" menu command\u003e "Import" menu, but the original layout structure and layer names are not saved.
• The clip timelines are not imported. Separate elements from the first frame of the clip timeline are imported, but are converted into graphic symbols. All other cadres of the clip are lost.
• Buttons are now considered as clips. Graphics in the key frame state "not pressed" is converted into graphic symbols. Everything else is lost.
• Animation is not imported.
• Ways of movement are not imported. However, images from each intermediate frame of the movement trajectory are imported as separate images in individual keyframes.
• Imported raster imagesUsed in the clip are successfully imported, but their source library names are not saved. They are renamed "Bitmap 1", "Bitmap 2" and so on.

Probably everyone saw some advertising animation on sites, when you hover the mouse cursor to which something starts to change in it. Or played online in applications / games on sites (social network or others). Even if you go to this site by a non-existent link type you will come about the same page created based on flash animation technology. And they have the file with the extension SWF. Here this article describes what this file is how to open it (for example, to play offline to the toy) and how to change (for lovers).

What is the file.swf?
SWF file - Flash animation created by Adobe Flash. Or another program to develop flash applications. Flash rollers can contain both ordinary text and vector, bitmap images, 3D graphics (limited), audio, video, scripts in ActionScript.

The Flash platform has gained very widespread in the field of creating interactive applications. It can be flash cartoons, games, videos (format files.flv), Web sites, created in whole or in part using this technology.

Well, then according to the instructions from the site.

To open, run the browser (it is desirable to create a new tab in it), "take" the LKM for your SWF file and drag it into the browser.

Option 2
Through the program.
There are 2. good programs To open such files - this (of the site did not find) and.

As for the second one - it is free, but the English-speaking and developers have shuddered something stopped to release updates on it and it will take maximum for XP.
If you get lost on the manufacturer's website and you will not find how to download this program:
choose in the top menu tab downloads

→ Sothink SWF Quicker

Sothink SWF Quicker. - Powerful utility to work with flash.. If we consider it for animation, it is better to look in the direction of the ADOBE product line. But to work with Flash applications, it is indispensable. In essence, this is a full-fledged editor for Flash, but its main feature is - convenient work from sWF format. With it, you can open the SWF file, edit it Action-script. and save. It is very convenient if you need to change MP3 player on your Flash, introducing a couple of your functions into its source.

Here is how it was. On one of the entertainment portals, an MP3 player was introduced for online listening music. Customer requirements were quite realizable. The player was supposed to be able to work with a playlist and have standard set Buttons. The choice fell on DewPlayer. Everything went great, cross browser was at height and work was nearing completion. But suddenly there was no big problem - the player did the French and apparently supporting Cyrillic and did not count on. That is, when playing a track, Russian characters in a running line with the name of the song were "crocated". Throwing done work did not want and the solution was found.

DewPlayer has a wide range of features, JavaScript support including. So, through JS, you can access the player methods. Consequently, if you implement your methods in Action-Script - we will get all the necessary functionality at the output. And it was necessary to create a function that would return the name of the current track.

So download and install Sothink SWF Quicker. Run. In the tab File Choose a position import.

In the window that opens, set the type of file .swf. And click on the "patient".

After selecting the file, the program may warn that the file is protected and asked: still imported? We answer yes. After the SWF file is open, we look at the lower right corner. Click on the tab Action.. Get Action-Script accessible to editing. Lectures in flash Programming I will not read, then yourself)).

After making changes, we make an inverse procedure - export. On the top of the panel we find the tab Export. In the context menu, click on Export Movie.. Next, save it to a new file or replace the one that is open.