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Well, I'll be damned. I didn't know SWF::Builder existed till just now. It comes with "asc.plx - SWF ActionScript compiler script."

Looks interesting and fun. But it also looks like about a million times more difficult than using Macromedia Flash (which has automatic "tweening" for all the difficult things like animations and alpha changes) as diotalevi mentioned.

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Re^2: How to compile perl source to SWF file?
by shenme (Priest) on Oct 02, 2004 at 19:56 UTC
    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!)

      I meant Perl perl interface to Ming. http://ming.sourceforge.net/ But I need online version for this Flash creator. Hosting service have no and does not support any SWF modules.