Sothink SWF Easy - Feature List
Effect
- Dozens of built-in effects
SWF Easy supplies dozens of built-in effects so users can create animation easily for texts, shapes and images. These built-in effects are classic ones that are selected from many wonderful samples carefully. They could help your animation be professional. Later on, you can also develop and add effects to the effect library. - Edit effects
After you add the effect to your animation, you also can change its parameters later to implement different animation effects. - Add multiple effects
SWF Easy supports adding multiple effects to one element. There are two ways to play the effects: playing the effects one by one under the order you defined or letting multiple effects show blended/combined. - Save and apply combined effect
We have prepared some combined effects, which can be applied in your artwork. You can also save the effect setting for your next use.
The most unique and magic feature Sothink SWF Easy provides is that you can create new effect, completely different from the built-in effects, by using the Effect Stacking technology. With a few carefully chosen and configured effects you are able to achieve lots of very unique and stylish effects.
Wizard & Template
- Quick-start with wizard
You can create a new Flash animation quickly by following the wizards. The wizard will guide you to create a normal album, flip album, banner or navigation buttons in minutes. - Templates gallery
Templates gallery lists categories according to template usage, and you can use the filter "Size" or "Color" to view the matchable templates in the current category, and then pick up the required template. Of course, you can also add your own template to the template gallery.
Button Maker
Inheriting the key feature of Glanda --Button maker, SWF Easy remains the function and even improves it better. Hundreds of button templates stored in the Resource panel. You can also add more at your pleasure. For each button template, you can edit its text, color, shape and URL, etc.
Motion Path
Motion path is also an effect SWF Easy offers. You can also
combine the motion paths with other animated effects.
Draw
- Familiar drawing tools
SWF Easy provides drawing tool including Line, Pencil, Square, Circle, Text, Reshape and Transform. You can create vector shapes consisted with variable lines and fill styles. - Edit Easily
The Edit dialog provides options like color, fill, position and size, etc. You can edit the drawing easily. - Image format
Support common image formats including BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF. Even more it supports importing existing vector graphics such as SVG and WMF/EMF. - Rich format text
Support rich format text such as bold, italic, character spacing, position, static and dynamic text and etc. - Ruler, Grid and Alignment
You can simply arrange your objects with the assistant of ruler, grid and alignment options.
Built-in Resources
Sothink SWF Easy supplies hundreds of well-designed resources including animated buttons, greeting cards and backgrounds. So you don't have to start from scratch. There are also a large amount of vector shapes, sound files supplied for your convenience. You may find what you want quickly by Search function.
Import external resources from SWF
SWF Easy allows you to get external resources (Shape, Image, Button, Sound and Movie Clip) by importing SWF files. From the Local under Resource panel, simply clicking the "+" sign to expand the folder tree and browsing to the folder in which the SWF locates, and then all of the resources contained in this SWF file will be listed.
Components
Sothink SWF Easy supplies components for developers who are building Flash applications and want to use components to speed development. By now, version 6.0 offers six UI components including Button, CheckBox, List, RadioButton, Scrollbar and TextScrollbar.
Import kinds of files
- Support importing images in formats of *.bmp, *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, etc.
- Support importing shapes in formats of *.gls (Sothink SWF Easy shape format), *.glb (Sothink SWF Easy button format), *.glm (Sothink SWF Easy movie clip format) and *.svg, *.wmf and *.emf.
- Support importing sounds in formats of *.mp3 and *.wav.
- Support importing SWF files to canvas directly to be used completely; and importing to Files separately to be used selectively.
- Support importing videos in formats of *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.rm, *.rmvb, *.mp4, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.vob or *.3gp and *.flv.
Export kinds of files
- Support exporting as Flash animation (*.swf).
- Support exporting as animated GIF file (*.gif).
- Support exporting as Windows AVI video (*.avi).
Sound
SWF Easy supports MP3 and WAV sound formats.
It also supports stream sound. Unlike event sound, stream sound can be played as soon as enough frames have been loaded. This feature is very useful when large sound files are used in the animation.
Scene
Main Scene can select more than one Auxiliary Scenes to be the background. Both main scene and auxiliary scene can be added effect and main scene can also be added action script.
Action
Sothink SWF Easy enables you to add action script to elements and scenes, so that you can have a better control on the animation.
It supports Actionscript 2.0
Tutorial
SWF Easy Interface
Basic Skills
Quick Start
Effect
Use Resource
Use Component
Export
Publish
How to
- How can I select the elements, which are covered by others?
- How to edit a shape?
- How to edit a button?
- How to set an element as background?
- How to add links to elements?
- How to add links to scenes?
- How to add a preloader to my animation?
- How to add image to my artwork?
- Can I edit image in my artwork and how?
- How to find more resources (Shape, Button, Image, Sound, and etc.)?
- How to publish my animation?