Stuff I am building:

Ted Patrick - Events & Community @ Adobe Systems

Note: This is the personal blog of Ted Patrick. The opinions and statements voiced here are my own.

KineticFusion & Nick Main

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 1:07 PM .

Working with KineticFusion (KF) today, WOW what a great product! Kinetic Fusion provides the ability to convert a swf to XML and back to swf. The engine contains a full actionscript compiler and provides an effective low level interface for manipulating swf files directly.

About 3 years ago, I worked with a toolkit written by Nick Main called JavaSWF. At the time it was clearly the best toolkit for writing SWF files and I used it extensively with several projects as it allowed for building swfs from xml. It was especially effective when used with batch scripting tools allowing the generation of 100's of SWF files. JavaSWF eventually was upgraded to JavaSWF2 but unfortunately ended development on about 07/11/02 with a patch release.

Kinetic Fusion has taken JavaSWF2 to the next level in a clean easy to use command line Java application. The toolkit allows you to assemble SWF from assets including fonts, video, audio, symbols, all via XML. The XML dialect is easy to use as you can turn any swf into XML source. It is especially useful in exploring the SWF file format as it allows you to see the "Wizard behind the curtain" and understand how concepts in the FMX IDE translate into swf file format.

Here is snip from a converted SWF:

http://www.powersdk.com/sample/test.swf
http://www.powersdk.com/sample/test.xml

Special credit to Nick Main and Kinesis Software for a great job all around. I cannot wait to see where this toolkit leads. Plus you can't beat excellent freeware!!!

Cheers,

ted ;)

0 Responses to “KineticFusion & Nick Main”

Post a Comment

Where to find me:

Ted on Twitter - @AdobeTed
Ted on Adobe Groups
Ted on LinkedIn
Ted on Facebook
Ted at Adobe


Latest

Lists

Links

Jobs

Flex Jobs
city, state, zip

Archives