Re: [seul-edu] Authoring tools for Content

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 03:11 am, Satyakam Goswami wrote:
>    we are in the process of creating content for Schools , right now we
> are using the following proprietary tools and are looking for something
> similar in the Free Software World.

> 1)Macromedia Director
> 2)Macromedia Flash

AFAICT, it ain't there, but I compiled the following list for a 
Flash-and-OSS-related question not ten minutes ago:

    http://swfdec.sourceforge.net/ - Flash disassembler (decoder) and player
    http://ming.sourceforge.net/ - PHP/commandline Flash constructor
    http://www.activehead.com/Library/SiteBuilder.aspx/378 - Flash scripting
    http://sswf.sourceforge.net/ - Flash creator (animates text etc as movies)
    http://amfphp.sourceforge.net/ - Connects PHP objects to actionscript
    http://gordon.sourceforge.net/ - XML to Flash, SVG to Flash
    http://xmlrpcflash.sourceforge.net/ - XML-RPC adaptor for Flash
 http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/flashcoders-wiki/index.php?FlashSQLComponentKit
    - talk to SQL servers from Flash
    http://drawswf.sourceforge.net/ - Flash drawing tool (written in Java)
    http://www.quiss.org/swftools/ - Convert/Inspect/Merge/etc Flash (SWF)

(there were others)

The sum of this is: we have mountains of tools for compiling, decompiling, 
modifying, inspecting, connecting and converting Flash (SWF) files and 
components, but zippo for interactive editing.

It would be fairly easy to throw together a tool to edit XML and/or whatever 
SWF source is called, with a preview button to see your Flash in action. 
Diffing against the previous attempt and restarting the sequence 2s before 
the earliest change wouldn't be hard, either. Full interactivity would be 
harder.

Cheers; Leon