chenee / ccswf

CCSWF

CCSWF is an attempt to bring Flash interfaces to Cocos2D 1.x (may be easily ported to Cocos2D 2.0 and Cocos2Dx). CCSWF is based on Thatcher Ulrich's gameswf.

What is CCSWF's state?

Although CCSWF is in a somewhat usable state, it is a long way from a full production state. Use at your own risk. Since CCSWF is currently based upon gameswf it inherits any of its original limitations, visit the gameswf website for more info. A lot of testing needs to be done to get CCSWF to a stable release, please report any issues or contribute to make it better. Touch input and transformations have not been tested on all devices. -Report problems

• Masking is not working. -Do not report this.
• Sound is not working, -Do not report this.
• As with gameswf only ActionScript 2.0 is supported (make sure to publish your SWF files with ActionScript 2.0)
• Scaling the movie breaks the touches TODO

Are there plans for the future?

Yes. CCSWF was created as a POC of what issues can be solved with flash, namely the biggest bottleneck for many companies: GUI. There are commercial tools like Autodesk's Scaleform that demonstrate the reach of a tool like this. Also, Adobe has released the SWF file format spec which opens up the possibilities for many improvements. CCSWF final goal would be to move away from gameswf and implement a native interface that parses the SWF file and renders it using only Cocos2D classes like CCSprite or CCAction and a couple custom ones for vector graphics. Yet again, that is a long way from becoming a reality.

How does it work?

In its current state CCSWF wraps gameswf in a CCSWFNode class that inherits from CCNode. In other words, create an instance of CCSWFNode using code like:

CCNode *swf = [CCSWFNode nodeWithSWFFile:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"HelloWorld" ofType:@"swf"]];
[self addChild:swf];

That's it, you can almost treat your CCSWFNode as any other CCNode.

How can I contribute?

All fixes/improvements are welcome, there are a couple things that we would like to get people to help with though:

• ActionScript 3.0 support
• Native Objective-C SWF parsing
• Use the Cocos2D scene graph to render the SWF hierarchy
• Documentation

There are two versions of CCSWF:

• gameswf backed (currently in a somewhat working state), you can find this version on master
• Objective-C native (currently not working, uncompressing and initial parsing is complete), you can find this version on the "Objective-C" branch