Dwight,


> One thing though -- Macromedia is hardly giving away the candy store in
> their Flash open file format package. The swfparse code is a nice start,
> but it's hardly a reference implementation is it?

You're right - the Open-SWF documentation has a lot of inaccurate
statements and the parse code provided doesn't even work as expected.
Fortunately, there are couple of people working on similar stuff in the
(graphics) community and I was able to share my insights with them and so
figure out how to deal with some of the more strange descriptions from the
spec.

> You still get to implement all the primitives yourself.

Luckily, this is not too hard. The technology that's needed for this dates
back at least to the 80's (e.g., use a simple scan-line renderer with an
active edge table approach, couple of lines and quadratic bezier segments,
a little forward-differencing here and there, and away you go). But today
we have the processing power to do this with neat anti-aliasing at 10
frames per second ;-)

  Andreas
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