Thanks for sharing! F4 bytecode definitely looks different to F6

I won’t be supporting F4 with SWX — I believe I can use the effort that would take in other ways to make SWX better. It’s good to know though. I wasn’t aware that SwishMax SWFs were F4 based.

As I mentioned after your presentation at the london flash meet; swishMax has a ‘echo bytecode’ in its trace window, which you may find usefull.

[code]
eg
onload(){
a=1;
b=2;
}
[/code]

echo script
[code]
Scene_1::onload()
2: a=1
3: b=2
}
[/code]

summary

[code]
::TARGET=”/_”
::setVariable “_load013E12D8″,”1″
::setTarget(target=”..”)
::TARGET=”/”
::setVariable “a”,”1″
::setVariable “b”,”2″
::setTarget “”
::TARGET=”/_”
::stop
[/code]

and detailed

[code]
::TARGET=”/_”
::push(”_load013E12D8″) -> “_load013E12D8″
::getVariable “_load013E12D8″ -> undefined
::branchIfTrue(skip=110) 0
::push(”_load013E12D8″) -> “_load013E12D8″
::push(1) -> 1, “_load013E12D8″
::setVariable “_load013E12D8″,”1″
::setTarget(target=”..”)
::TARGET=”/”
::push(”a”) -> “a”
::push(1) -> 1, “a”
::setVariable “a”,”1″
::push(”b”) -> “b”
::push(2) -> 2, “b”
::setVariable “b”,”2″
::setTarget “”
::TARGET=”/_”
::stop
[/code]

then echo script & echo bytecode

[code]
::TARGET=”/_”
::push(”_load013E12D8″) -> “_load013E12D8″
::getVariable “_load013E12D8″ -> undefined
::branchIfTrue(skip=110) 0
::push(”_load013E12D8″) -> “_load013E12D8″
::push(1) -> 1, “_load013E12D8″
::setVariable “_load013E12D8″,”1″
::setTarget(target=”..”)
::TARGET=”/”
Scene_1::onload()
2: a=1
::push(”a”) -> “a”
::push(1) -> 1, “a”
::setVariable “a”,”1″
3: b=2
::push(”b”) -> “b”
::push(2) -> 2, “b”
::setVariable “b”,”2″
}
::setTarget “”
::TARGET=”/_”
::stop
[/code]

The interesting thing about swishMax is that it has some improved flash4 functionality which I wanted to sometime test with flash lite, and even for flash 6 it can often output faster running code.

But have not used it for quite awhile, but if you use it and have any questions I will try to help as played about with it alot.

Justin

Thanks, man. I’d saved the example FLA in an incorrect format (oops) in 0.1a. It’s been fixed in 0.1d.

Later releases will come preconfigured with the dev environment so you won’t have to do anything to configure it. (Of course, you’ll always have the option of downloading just the SWX bits if you want.)

I have to admit, I couldn’t get the .fla to open in verion 0.1a, but the version in 0.1d finally worked for me and I had to change not only the port 8888, but also the /trunk/ subdirectory.

Great stuff. Will have a play!

Kevo