SWF.pm -- A perl interface for creating SWF files. ABSTRACT: --------- This is an auto-loadable interface module for Ming - a library for generating SWF ("Flash") format movies. With this library you can create Flash movies on the fly with Perl. INSTALLATION: ------------- Read these instructions all the way through before you start! 1. Make sure you have downloaded Ming ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming ). If you haven't compiled Ming, it will be compiled during SWF.pm installation process (step 3 below). 2. Unpack the tar file. (If you are reading this you have probably done this. :-)) Under Unix type: tar xvzf ming-perl-XXX.tar.gz 3. Compile: a. cd ming-perl-XXX/perl-ext b. perl Makefile.PL c. make d. make test (optional but recommended) e. make install During step (b), Makefile.PL will try to find your Ming distribution. If it fails, you will be asked to provide the Ming directory. If you want to install SWF into your home directory, replace step (b) with: b. perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/your/directory 4. There are some cgi demos in the examples directory. THE EXAMPLES ARE NOT PERLIASH (you can write it more succinctly in Perl). These examples were created from PHP examples in the Ming distribution. 5. After install there is too some (still incomplete) documentation accessible by manpages. E.g. type man SWF or man SWF::Shape Hint: The KDE file and web browser Konqueror formats manpages automatic as nice HTML-files. COPYRIGHT INFO -------------- Copyright (c) 2000-2003 by Soheil Seyfaie. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. AUTHOR: _______ Soheil Seyfaie soheil at users.sourceforge.net and many others (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/ )