Any chance of .SWF playing capabilities?

Justin Savidge · Post by **Justin Savidge** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:39 am

Probably a long shot, but maybe someone could implement the Macromedia Flash Player to be able to play SWF animations within Irrlicht, for example an introduction screen or an in-game element?

I have some really cool ideas if this were to be used, and maybe an official Irrlicht splash screen for devs to throw into their projects? I plan to make one.

I would have a go at coding it myself, but my C++ skills are lets say, frightening and I'm more of a conceptual administrator, not a coding administrator.

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Eternl Knight · Post by **Eternl Knight** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:49 am

There is already a public domain library for this. It's called gameswf and you can access it here: http://tulrich.com/geekstuff/gameswf.html

Hope this helps

--EK

boboS · Post by **boboS** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:42 pm

Where have you been since now?

I was trying for over 1 year to implement flash in C++ but i couldnt find any information. Its quite important to me because I've learn 4 years of flash programming and it will be interesiting to mix with C++ (what I learn now). Thanks alot!

Eternl Knight · Post by **Eternl Knight** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:20 pm

Well there are limitations to gameswf, it doesn't implement all of ActionScript (only what the author has needed so far) and it doesn't play audio files (that's left as an exercise for the underlyinig game-engine). Though it should do for simple GUI interfaces...

--EK

Justin Savidge · Post by **Justin Savidge** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 6:00 am

Thankyou, this will be handy!

Murphy · Post by **Murphy** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:45 am

There was already some discussion of this very same topic in this very same forum, though I don't think anything came of it...