Use this quick guide to create sample "Hello, World!" Flash movie using Visual C# and SWF Scout SDK.

1) Install SWF Scout SDK on your computer and run Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Go to New menu and click Project... to create new Visual C# project:

The New Project Wizard will appear. Select Windows Application in Visual C# Projects group:

2) Visual C# will create a new empty project:

3) To use SWF Scout library in Visual C# application, we should add the reference to SWF Scout. Select Project in the main menu and then select Add Reference command:

Switch to COM tab and find SWF Scout library in the list of available ActiveX/COM objects:

Then click Select and OK to add the reference to SWF Scout.

4) Double-click on form Form1 to create the Form1_Load procedure (this procedure will be execute on Form1.OnLoad event):

The source code editor window will appear:

5) The following code snippet generates simple "Hello, World!" SWF flash movie and saves it as c:\shapes.swf file:

SWFScout.FlashMovie Movie = new SWFScout.FlashMovie();
Movie.InitLibrary("demo", "demo");
Movie.BeginMovie(0, 0, 640, 480, 1, 12, 6);
int Font = Movie.AddFont("Arial", 18, true, false, false, false, 0); // add font
// create and place text
int Text = Movie.AddText("Hello, World!", 0, 0, 0, 255, Font, 0, 100, 250, 160);
Movie.PlaceText(Text, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth); // place text into current depth
Movie.PLACE_FadeOut(0.5F); // fade out text
int Shape = Movie.AddShape(); // add new shape
Movie.SHAPE_Rectangle(0, 140, 150, 285); // draw rectangle
Movie.SHAPE_SetSolidColor(50, 255, 50, true, 255); // set solid fill for shape
Movie.PlaceShape(Shape, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth); // place shape into current depth
Movie.ShowFrame(10); // show 10 frames
Movie.EndMovie(); // end movie generation
Movie.SaveToFile("c:\\Shapes.swf"); //  save generated SWF into file

Hint: you can simply copy the source code from the snippet above and paste into Visual C# source code editor:

6) Press F5 to run the application (you can also use Debug > Start menu command) and Visual C# .NET will run the application:

The application will create "Hello, World!" Flash animation movie and save it as c:\shapes.swf file.
You can view generated flash animation using any application that can play flash movies: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc.

Download source code: