Today I was looking into tools for stand-alone Flash applications. I’m dumping the notes here… will clean them up later with my thoughts:

SWF Tools PROJECTOR Tools listing http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=290

http://www.multidmedia.com/ Flash Studio PRO v2 $250 Crossplatform (through extra-cost plugin), use fscommands

http://www.northcode.com SWF Studio V2 $139 Crossplatform, uses fscommands

http://www.swfkit.com SWFKit Pro $299 http://www.swfkit.com/swfkit/doc/pro_manual/index.html However, this doesn’t look like it’s native code

http://www.screentime.com mProjector $299 Claims to use http://www.screentime.com/software/mprojector/docs/mWindow18.html

SWF STudio V2 itself is fairly cheap, and explicitly says it supports Z-order. And it’s made in america!

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/hta_node_entry.asp

Gotchyas: http://www.martijndevisser.com/archives/000029.php http://www.sti-media.com/blog/archives/2004_08.html http://www.razorberry.com/blog/archives/2004/08/25/swf-2-exe-applications/#more-6 http://flashguru.co.uk/pipermail/extendflash_flashguru.co.uk/20040730/001156.html

Interesting: http://flashguru.co.uk/pipermail/extendflash_flashguru.co.uk/20040730/001156.html