swfml basic profile

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Introduction

This is the reference to the swfml basic profile XML dialect. swfmill can convert from binary SWF to and from this dialect. It is very closely modeled after the SWF file format, which means that you can produce all kinds of illegal SWFs with it, so be careful.

About this Document

This reference lists all types, tags and actions available in swfml basic. It is organized into chapters, first listing basic types, then Tags and Actions. All tables are in alphabetical order. The difference of internal and basic types should be irrelevant to the swfml user.

Example entry

Let's look at the Import tag as an example. It's entry looks like this:

Tag Name	ID	Attributes
Import	0x39	url (string) symbols (List of Symbols)

This tells us that there is a swfml tag called "Import" which has two parameters: url and symbols. You can safely ignore the ID, it is given for reference purposes only. Note, though, that "Symbol" is a link to a type definition, which looks like this:

Type Name	Attributes
Symbol	objectID (word) name (string)

We now have enough information to construct an Import tag, it could look like this:

<Import url="http://foo.com/mylibrary.swf">
  <symbols>
    <Symbol objectID="1" name="myFoo"/>
    <Symbol objectID="2" name="myBar"/>
  </symbols>
</Import>

Note that, while primitive types like string must be given as Attributes, Lists and Object parameters become Child Elements of our tag instance.

Basic Types

Tags

Actions