And I may be reading it all wrong, but it looks like you can code as Perl object method calls that "build up" to a SWF file. That is, it looks like you could code either *.as ActionScript source files or *.pl code!

AND, I just looked at what _else_ Yasuhiro Sasama has done, SWF::File . From one part of the readme:

SAMPLE SCRIPT
dumpswf.plx parses a SWF file and converts it to a perl script that outputs the same SWF file.
These two modules together, is this like GD was for GIF files, allowing dynamic creation and output of SWF files?

(Gaaah! Now I'm really worried I'll see even more of them Flash! creations? Bleaah!)

In reply to Re^2: How to compile perl source to SWF file? by shenme
in thread How to compile perl source to SWF file? by Anonymous Monk

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