smokescreen

A Flash player written in JavaScript. Now with more bugs! This version is a major rework of what was demoed last year. It is better in many ways, but also less complete in many ways. It also uses Canvas to render instead of SVG. The main difference, though, is that after making a mess building the first player, this codebase is actually maintainable. Currently cleaning up: tools to help dissect SWFs, and the AS2 -> JS compiler.

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2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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robterrell·Nov 12, 2011

If you're thinking about using this, you might also consider Gordon (https://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon) or Smokescreen (https://github.com/cesmoak/smokescreen). Gordon's simpler -- very easy to follow code. Whereas Smokescreen, like Swiffy, offers support for audio and AS2. I integrated Gordon into my HTML5 game yesterday to render a walk cycle SWF and the framerate didn't drop. I'm going to do the same thing with Smokescreen next.

In Have a Flash SWF File? convert it to HTML5 with Google Swiffy