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What is a .SWC file and how is it commonly used?
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You need a suitable software like Snes9x to open an SWC file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your SWC file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file.
Contains a group of components and other assets used by an Adobe Flex application; includes a . SWF file and a catalog. xml file, which lists the contents of the package and the individual components; generated by the Animate authoring tool and compressed using the PKZIP archive format.
What is a SWF File? SWF file is an Adobe flash file format which contains videos and vector based animations. The full abbreviation of SWF is Small Web Format but sometimes it is referred as ShockWave Format. This file format was created by macromedia and now is owned by Adobe.
There are two primary types in Flash, Drawings and Symbols.
In addition to just holding classes, SWCs can also hold media assets. SWCs are used by linking them into existing Flash or Flex projects. Adobe Flash Pro CS4 is the first version of Flash where you could just link in a SWC to a FLA (this is done in the AS3 section of the Flash tab of the Publish Settings). Previously SWCs had to be brought in as components.
SWCs allow for the easy distribution of assets between Flash and Flex (well, the tool is now called Flash Builder, but the framework is still called Flex). We currently use them to build our visual assets in Flash Pro and then use them in a Flex project.
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