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Current Release

Ming

  • 26 October 2011 - Ming 0.4.4 [ bz2 | zip | tgz ]

    • Generally improve swftoscript and decompiler
    • Change makefdb to name output files by font ID, to play nicer with swftoscript.
    • Add support for 'class A extends B' syntax in actioncompiler
    • Fix bug in 'makeswf' failing to catch some compile errors (bugzilla #94) and being too silent in swf embedding errors
    • Fix bug in action compiler dealing with class methods (bugzilla #94)

    • Add support for libpng > 1.4 (bugzilla #96)

    • Add font kernings support (bugzilla #95)
    • Add button characters export capabilities

    • Add support for 'swfAction <code>' syntax in asm blocks

  • 6 February 2010 - Ming 0.4.3 [ tgz | zip | sf ]

    • Fixed SWFMatrix scaling if scale = 0.0
    • Added delete and delete2 support in asm blocks
    • A lot of updates and improvements in the Perl interface
    • A lot of documentation (pod) was added to Perl files
    • Support for manually specifying MP3 delaySeek for SWFSound and SWFSoundStream
    • Fix sharing of fonts between static and dynamic texts
    • Fix support for movie-bound init actions

ttf2fft

  • 23 March 2010 - ttf2fft 1.1

    • Patched version of the JGenerator ttf2fft program. Now updated to support recent FreeType versions, plus keep kerning information.

    • Credit for the patches goes to Ohtsuka Yoshio for the FreeType work, and Benoît DUFOUR for the kerning work.

Fonts

  • Ming fonts 1.0.0

    • First release of the ming-fonts package.

    • This contains the Bitstream Vera font family, a high quality font family suitable for commercial grade end user applications, converted into FDB format for use directly from Ming. Further information about the Bitstream Vera font family can be found here: http://www.gnome.org/fonts.

Past Releases

Ming

  • 17 September 2008 - Ming 0.4.2 (0.4 Release Candidate 2)

    • Shared library is 1.4.1 under Linux.
    • SWFVideoStream allow manual frame control
    • Autoconf perl version
    • MSVC compile fixes
    • removed src/test.c
    • Embedded video in movie clips
    • Seek in Embedded video streams

  • 5th July 2008 - Ming 0.4.0 Release Candidate 1 (rc1)

    • Shared library is 1.4.0 under Linux
    • Perl extension updates
    • Python extension updates
    • Do not force bgColor
    • Redirect SWF_warn and SWF_error to stderr
    • Propper checks for YACC and LEX
    • Complete Bitmap fillstyles
    • Font fixes

    • Actioncompiler fixes (delete, built-in functions, callFrame -> call())

    • Fixed tag order issues

    • Ming defaults now to local-with-filesystem sandbox for SWF>=8

    • Add support for init actions in makeswf
    • SWF8 / 9 support for fromswf / prebuiltclip
    • implements ASM op
    • ASFunction()
    • AS Class support

    • Removed SWF!FontCharacter destructor from PHP wrapper

    • py_ext update
    • Class members
    • outputBlock() usese length and offset from SWF_Parserstruct

    • SWF!DisplayItem_flush(): immediately write display items.

    • Removed ttftofft

    • Improved ButtonRecord handling

    • SWFSound_fromSoundStream()
    • Many improvements in decompiler and swftoXXX tools
    • C++ might throw a SWFException
    • Support for embedded Nellymoser sound
    • AS: in with-blocks legacy functions o not work
    • Compiles again with MSVC
    • simplified SWFSound usage with mp3 files

    • SWF!SoundStream_getDuration replaces SWF!SoundStream_getFrames()

    • perl_ext build changes (build out of tree)

    • API float->double transition

    • php_ext: SWFInput can wrap raw byte-streams
    • php_ext: API: external data can be passed as file-resource, SWFInput or filename
    • removed newSWFFont() as public function (causes various crashes)
    • removed new SWFFont(...) usage with browserfonts in script languages.

  • 19th September 2007 - Ming 0.4.0 Beta 5

    • Add support for targetPath asm opcode.
    • Flash 8: filter and blend modes for buttons
    • Flash 8: SWF_DEFINEMORPHSHAPE2
    • Flash 8: SWFShape rendering hints
    • Flash 8: new gradient features

    • SWF!FillStyle is reusable now and calculates proper GradientMatrix

    • setLeft/Right!FillStyle adds fill to the shape if necessary

    • Handling fonts as shapes
    • Basic ttf font support
    • Typesafe SWFMovie_add / replace

    • Add Envelopes to SoundInstance

    • ABC (AS3) parser and output
    • Parse SWF_SERIALNUMBER
    • Parse SWF9 tags

    • SWF9: DefineBinaryData

    • SWF9: SymbolClass

    • SWF9: DefineSceneData

  • 27th March 2007 - Ming 0.4.0 Beta 4

    • Fix handling of the special 'undefined' value.
    • Fix 'delete' syntax in action compiler.
    • makeswf now handles bitmaps.
    • Many improvements in decompiler.
    • Build scripts cleanup (including check rule).
    • Add support for 'extends' and proper 'push' asm opcodes in

      • ActionScript compiler.

    • Generate DefineFunction2 when target version > 6.

    • Use GOTOFRAME, GOTOFRAME2 and GOTOLABEL when using gotoAndPlay()
      • or gotoAndStop() w/out an object.
    • Video updates: added Flash8 codecs, generic flv parser
    • Soundstream: accept flv audio streams (mp3 only for now)

    • Flash 8: PlaceObject3

    • Flash 8: Filter and Blendmode
    • Write proper Flash 8 files

    • Added movie control tags: FileAttributes, Metadata,

      • ScriptLimits, ImportAssets2, SetTabIndex

    • Flash 8: ScalingGrid

    • Parser / listswf updates
    • PHP / Perl bindings update

    • Flash 8: DefineShape4 / Linestyle2

    • SWFAction cleanup and API cleanup
    • SWF_warnOnce()

  • 11th December 2006 - Ming 0.4.0 Beta 3

    • Fix version to not use dashes to make rpmbuild happy
    • autotool tcl extension
    • coalesce multiple ming.i files into a single file at the top

    • swig output updated for python & tcl

    • Misc decompiler fixes
    • makeswf now handles precompiled clips
    • Make sure the extension source show up in the dist tarballs
    • compiler fix for asm {} blocks

  • 21st November 2006 - Ming 0.4.0 Beta 2

    • Preliminary support for building RPM packages
    • New PHP code that builds for PHP$ and PHP5

    • Added missing SWF!MovieClip class in PHP

    • New tool, ttftofft, for producing ming formast fonts
    • Allow output of SWF version 8
    • Better SWF parser (utilities).
    • NEW function: SWFMovie_protectWithPassword()
    • preprocessor products of 'makeswf' are now named after
      • output filename and frame# (ie: "out.swf.frame0.pp")
    • Automake-based build, for portability's sake (libtool)
    • Ming_setWarnFunction and Ming_setErrorFunction now return
      • the previously-set value.
    • More documentation !
    • Start of a test suite!

    • makeswf now provides an __SWF_VERSION__ macro for use

      • in cross-version ActionScript code.

    • NEW functions: SWF!DisplayItem_getMatrix(),

      • SWFPosition_getMatrix(), SWFMatrix_getScaleX(), SWFMatrix_getRotate0(), SWFMatrix_getRotate1(), SWFMatrix_getScaleY(), SWFMatrix_getTranslateX(), SWFMatrix_getTranslateY(), SWFShape_moveScaledPenTo().

  • 15th February 2006 - Ming 0.3.0

    • The old Ming 0.3.0 version.