Bytescout SWF Scout

SWF Scout is an impressive ActiveX library designed for generating SWF flash movies from various programming languages such as Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#, ASP and ASP.NET. It even provides a feature to use existing SWF flash movies as templates and create new movies in real-time. This means you can easily replace various elements in a pre-existing SWF movie, such as movieclips, text, fonts, images, actionscript variables in the SWF template, etc.

One of the best advantages of SWF Scout is its capability to create SWF (flash) files without requiring any additional libraries or applications. Additionally, it can also generate Flash Lite compatible flash movies, which is fantastic. The software also includes various tools to create shapes, buttons, text, text edits, morphing shapes, sprites and add sound (mp3 and wav) and video (FLV) to your movies. You can also create pre-loaders for your flash movies, convert EMF to SWF and HTML to SWF movieclip(s) conversion.

There’s no shortage of features in SWF Scout. It enables you to load JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, and GIF images; use load external SWF clips as sprites, convert SWF to EXE, SWF to standalone SCR (screensaver) and consists of Events and Actions support. Moreover, SWF Scout offers “Real” hDC that can be used to draw shapes, text and using WinAPI GDI functions. It also supports Unicode and font embedding, transformations and in-memory file generation support for use in ASP / ASP.NET (requires Web License).

Overall, SWF Scout is an excellent library that comes with many essential features for creating astonishing SWF Flash movies. If you're a developer looking forward to generating flash movies in Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#, or ASP/ASP.NET, then it’s definitely worth a try!