Glossary -- Sothink SWF Decompiler

Shape & Image: Computers display graphics in either vector or bitmap format. Flash lets users create and animate compact vector graphics. It also supports users to import and manipulate bitmap graphics that have been created in other applications.

• Shape: Refers the vector graphics used in Flash (*.swf file). Vector graphics describe images using lines and curves -- "vectors", which also include color and position properties. You can move, re-size, reshape, and change the color of a vector graphic without changing the quality of its appearance.
• Image: Refers the graphics in bitmap format. Bitmap graphics describe images using colored dots -- "pixels", which are arranged within a grid. Bitmap graphics are resolution-dependent because the data describing the image is fixed to a grid of a particular size. Editing a bitmap graphic can change the quality of its appearance.
• Morph Shape: Refers the shapes in shape tween.

Sound: Refers the audio files used in this SWF file. Sothink SWF Decompiler supports to export sound in *.mp3 or *.wav format.

Video: Refers the Flash video files (*.flv).

Font: Refers the font-family used in this file.

Text: Shows the text content of this SWF file.

Sprite: Refers the "movie clip" used in this file. A movie clip symbol is like a self-contained movie that you can place in a host movie as if it was a single object. It can include animation and interactivity just like a regular movie.

Button: Refers the buttons of this file.

Frame: Refers the static graphics that are used to consist of this Flash movie.

Action: Shows the ActionScript of this movie.

Component: Refers to movie clip with parameters, which are set during authoring in Flash, and with ActionScript methods, properties, and events that allow you to customize the component at runtime. Components are designed to allow developers to reuse and share code, and to encapsulate complex functionality that designers can use and customize without using ActionScript.

FLEX: FLEX is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While FLEX applications can be built using only the free open source framework, developers can use Adobe® FLEX® Builder™ software to dramatically accelerate development.

XFL: XFL files are essentially the XML equivalent of FLA files. An XFL file is a compressed archive folder that contains a Library folder and an XML document (DOMDocument.xml) that describes the FLA file. The Library folder contains the assets referred to by the XML file. When you open an XFL file in Flash Professional, it extracts these items from the XFL file and uses them to build a FLA document.

HTML5: HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers etc.).