Giving you the power to present your mission critical information in the form of vector graphics and animation, Flash for .NET allows you to create Adobe Flash (SWF) documents from your applications.
There are three WinForms components in the product package. Each is designed for different usage:
- C1FlashCanvas – a component similar to the .NET Graphics class. It provides methods for drawing content to a single frame, or canvas, of Flash. The coordinate in C1FlashCanvas is the logical pixel. If you want to generate Flash animations, you need to use C1FlashMovie.
- C1FlashMovie – a component that can be used to create multi-frames animation. You can add/remove/transform graphical objects to the frames. The coordinate in C1FlashMovie is a twip which is the measurement used by the Adobe SWF specification. In the SWF format, a twip is 1/20th of a logical pixel. A logical pixel is the same as a screen pixel when the movie is played at 100% - that is, without scaling.
- C1FlashSlide – a component that can be used to create a slide show in the Adobe Flash file format. Each page of the slide is an FPage class that provides the methods similar to those in the .NET Graphics class. With the powerful Slide Designer you can layout and specify the properties of the UI elements in a convenient way, such as navigation buttons, page header, page footer, and page number.
Flash for .NET provides most of the graphical drawing abilities that SWF format supports, and a very important feature of Flash for .NET is its ease of use. Draw content to a single-frame Flash document, create Flash animation through a series of frames, or organize your Flash frames in a slide show.
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