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Current Release

Ming

• Ming 0.4.0.beta5

  • Add support for targetPath asm opcode.

  • Flash 8: filter and blend modes for buttons

  • Flash 8: SWF_DEFINEMORPHSHAPE2

  • Flash 8: SWFShape rendering hints

  • Flash 8: new gradient features

  • SWFFillStyle is reusable now and calculates proper GradientMatrix

  • setLeft/RightFillStyle adds fill to the shape if necessary

  • Handling fonts as shapes

  • Basic ttf font support

  • Typesafe SWFMovie_add / replace

  • Add Envelopes to SoundInstance

  • ABC (AS3) parser and output

  • Parse SWF_SERIALNUMBER

  • Parse SWF9 tags

  • SWF9: DefineBinaryData

  • SWF9: SymbolClass

  • SWF9: DefineSceneData

Fonts

• Ming fonts 1.0.0

  • First release of the ming-fonts package.

  • This contains the Bitstream Vera font family, a high quality font family suitable for commercial grade end user applications, converted into FDB format for use directly from Ming. Further information about the Bitstream Vera font family can be found here: http://www.gnome.org/fonts.

Past Releases

Ming

• Ming 0.4.0.beta4

  • Fix handling of the special 'undefined' value.

  • Fix 'delete' syntax in action compiler.

  • makeswf now handles bitmaps.

  • Many improvements in decompiler.

  • Build scripts cleanup (including check rule).

  • Add support for 'extends' and proper 'push' asm opcodes in

    • ActionScript compiler.

  • Generate DefineFunction2 when target version > 6.

  • Use GOTOFRAME, GOTOFRAME2 and GOTOLABEL when using gotoAndPlay()

    • or gotoAndStop() w/out an object.

  • Video updates: added Flash8 codecs, generic flv parser

  • Soundstream: accept flv audio streams (mp3 only for now)

  • Flash 8: PlaceObject3

  • Flash 8: Filter and Blendmode

  • Write proper Flash 8 files

  • Added movie control tags: FileAttributes, Metadata,

    • ScriptLimits, ImportAssets2, SetTabIndex

  • Flash 8: ScalingGrid

  • Parser / listswf updates

  • PHP / Perl bindings update

  • Flash 8: DefineShape4 / Linestyle2

  • SWFAction cleanup and API cleanup

  • SWF_warnOnce()

• Ming 0.4.0.beta3

  • Fix version to not use dashes to make rpmbuild happy

  • autotool tcl extension

  • coalesce multiple ming.i files into a single file at the top

  • swig output updated for python & tcl

  • Misc decompiler fixes

  • makeswf now handles precompiled clips

  • Make sure the extension source show up in the dist tarballs

  • compiler fix for asm {} blocks

• Ming 0.4.0.beta2

  • Preliminary support for building RPM packages

  • New PHP code that builds for PHP$ and PHP5

  • Added missing SWFMovieClip class in PHP

  • New tool, ttftofft, for producing ming formast fonts

  • Allow output of SWF version 8

  • Better SWF parser (utilities).

  • NEW function: SWFMovie_protectWithPassword()

  • preprocessor products of 'makeswf' are now named after

    • output filename and frame# (ie: "out.swf.frame0.pp")

  • Automake-based build, for portability's sake (libtool)

  • Ming_setWarnFunction and Ming_setErrorFunction now return

    • the previously-set value.

  • More documentation !

  • Start of a test suite!

  • makeswf now provides an __SWF_VERSION__ macro for use

    • in cross-version ActionScript code.

  • NEW functions: SWFDisplayItem_getMatrix(),

    • SWFPosition_getMatrix(), SWFMatrix_getScaleX(), SWFMatrix_getRotate0(), SWFMatrix_getRotate1(), SWFMatrix_getScaleY(), SWFMatrix_getTranslateX(), SWFMatrix_getTranslateY(), SWFShape_moveScaledPenTo().

• Ming 0.3.0

  • The old Ming 0.3.0 version.