The SSWF project includes several utilities to work on Flash movies. The main one is certainly the library which enables a programmer to easilly create an SWF file. The sswf tool can also be used to do just that: create a movie from a script. The interest is to have the movie created dynamically with data which are available at the time of creation. This is of course only useful for web sites which are CGI enabled. Though that's was the main aim, the scripting language can also be used to generate static SWF files for your static web sites.
A great help would come from a tool which would be used to draw shapes and save them in the format understandable by sswf (a list of points, fill styles and a shape). If someone has plenty of time and wants to join...
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