SWiSH Max is a Flash, Dynamic HTML and vector graphic creation tool that is commonly used to create interactive and
cross-platform
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movies, animations, and presentations. It was developed and distributed by Swishzone.com Pty Ltd, based in
Sydney
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, Australia. In October 2016, Swishzone.com posted a message on their website indicating that Swishzone.com was closed and their products were removed from distribution. A software key generated was made available for download from their home page.
SWiSH Max primarily outputs to the
.swf format, which is currently under control of
Adobe Systems
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.
SWiSH Max was designed for the
Windows operating system. SWiSH Max3 added features such as a knife drawing tool, advanced shape operations, and ActionScript 2.0 classes.
Graphics
SWiSH Max is generally considered to be a simpler and less costly Flash creation tool in comparison with
Adobe Flash
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. SWiSH Max does not support some Adobe Flash features such as
ActionScript 3.0
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, shape tweens, and
bitmap
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drawing capabilities. It does, however, include general Flash creation features such as vector drawing, motion tweens, and symbol editing. In addition, SWiSH Max incorporates a number of automated effects and transitions, which make building certain Flash elements such as buttons, advanced transition effects, and interactive Flash sites simpler. One drawback of SWiSH Max is its inability to open or save .fla files, which limits exchanges between other programs to final .swf files.
Scripting
The scripting used in SWiSH Max is a variation of
ActionScript
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, commonly known as SWiSH script. SWiSH script contains most
ActionScript 2.0 functionality, including support for ActionScript 2.0 classes in SWiSH Max 3.
See also
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List of 2D animation software
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Adobe Flash
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References
External links
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