Sothink SWF Quicker Readme File
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Table of Contents
      
    * Description
    * Release Notes 
    * Requirements 
    * Installation 
    * Uninstallation 
    * License 
    * Contact 

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DESCRIPTION

     Sothink SWF Quicker is a powerful tool to author professional 
     Flash movies. It supports ActionScript 2.0, shape design, rich 
     format text editing, movie clip and button creation, general or 
     guided motion tween, built-in effects, mask layer, stream sound 
     and event sound, Flash video, importing JPEG/BMP/Animated GIF/PNG 
     and much more. Besides using its own shape drawing tools, you can 
     also import other popular vector formats including AI, SVG and 
     WMF/EMF and use them in SWF Quicker. 

     SWF Quicker includes many features that make it powerful but 
     easy to use, such as a professional ActionScript editor which can 
     help users to write ActionScript directly with assistants as syntax 
     highlighting, auto member list, parameter information and auto 
     code completion; special effects that you can add to text, shape, 
     movie clip, etc. can absolutely do you a favor to get unique 
     effects with only a few mouse clicks. For your exactly creating, 
     image exporting quality control, playback settings lead you an 
     easy way to make progress. 

     It offers the ability to import SWF movies with intelligent motion 
     analysis and full ActionScript support. All the imported elements 
     and ActionScript can be easily modified and generated back to 
     new SWF movie with all functions of the original movie.
     
     You can also import video files in a variety of file formats. Supported 
     file formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV/ASF, MOV/QT, RM/RMVB, DivX/XviD.  

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RELEASE NOTES
    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 3.0
    Build Number: 70524
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Support creating shape tween animations.
    * Support creating image tween animations.
    * Added Selection, Lasso, Brush and Eraser drawing tools.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.6
    Build Number: 70301
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Corrected some spelling mistakes on the UI.
    * Fixed some other bugs.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.6
    Build Number: 70224
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed some bugs that cause crash while importing SWF.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.6
    Build Number: 70206
    New Features:
    * Added an Import SWF Options dialog box to control the importing
      process.
    * Added a toolbar to the Library panel.
    * Added a Gallery panel to store ready-to-use resources.
    * Added Fit in Window and Show All options for scaling the work 
      area.
    * Support holding Shift + Tab keys to select targets on the canvas 
      in an order opposite with that they have been created.
    * Added a Window item to Menu bar, in which sub-menus are moved 
      from View.

    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed the hidden layer error occurred when activate the Text tool.
    * Fixed the error occurred after dragging the Mask and Masked layers.
    * Fixed the error of generating HTML code from the Publish Wizard.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.5
    Build Number: 60929
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed some errors in the help file.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.5
    Build Number: 60913
    New Features:
    * Support selecting ActionScript version in the Publish Settings dialog box.
    * Support slash syntax in ActionScript 1.0.
    * Support strict data type and access type checking in ActionScript 2.0.
    * Support ActionScript interface
    * Add ActionScript reference to the Help document.

    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed some minor ActionScript compiler errors.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.2
    Build Number: 60421
    New Features:
    * Support OpenType and Type 1 fonts.

    Fixed Bugs:
    * The text tool works incorrectly on Windows 98 and Windows Me.
    * WMF/EMF/AI files which contain images can not be imported correctly.
    * 8-bit images in SQF files saved in previous versions display incorrectly 
      after opened in 2.1.
    * Old Style Effects using external resources may not work after previewed once.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.1
    Build Number: 60405
    New Features:
    * Optimized the frame & image processing routine. The memory usage and 
      document (*.sqf) size decrease effectively in version 2.1.
    * Added SWF Catcher for Firefox.

    Fixed Bugs:
    * The sound of imported video loses after saving and reopening the document.
    * The Old Style Effect may not work after previewed once.
    * Some methods of built-in classes, such as Microphone.get(), can not be 
      compiled correctly.
    * Embedded fonts may not work for Unicode characters.

 
    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.0
    Build Number: 60112
    Fixed Bugs:
    * The program may crash if a movie clip symbol contains effects and has 
      multiple instances.
    * The color of imported 16-bit bitmap is incorrect.
    * Fixed a crash error of the ActionScript compiler.


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 2.0
    Build Number: 60105
    New Features:
    * Support ActionScript 2.0. 
    * Added many new effects. The effect duration and play back can be 
      easily controlled now.
    * Support creating Flash Video. 
    * Support image exporting quality control. 
    * Support sound playback settings. 
    * Support sound effect, such as Fade in/out, Fade left to right, 
      and Custom effect. 
    * Added a Slide Show Wizard. 
    * Support importing/exporting Flash Projector (exe).
    * Support previewing images, SWF, GLM and GLB instantly in the 
      Import dialog. You can import more than one file at one time now.
    * Added Wizards for frequently used ActionScript such as getURL, 
      loadMovie, and etc. 
    * Support font substitution if some fonts do not exist while importing SWF.
    * Support converting static text to shape if the font does not exist while 
      importing SWF. 
    * Support embedding fonts for dynamic text. 
    * Support multiple columns and sorting in the Library tree. 
    * Added transition effect settings to the Album Wizard.  


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.6
    Build Number: 50428
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Some crash errors.
    * User can not use keyboard to navigate the Library tree continuously.
    * Linkages are lost while exporting symbols as .glm or .glb.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.6
    Build Number: 50318
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed the bug that SWF Catcher can not launch SWF Quicker.
    * Fixed an ActionScript decompiler error.
    * Fixed a text highlight problem.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.6
    Build Number: 50316
    New Features:
    * Provide wizard and template.
    * Support scene settings.
    * Support adding instance name to dynamic text.
    * Support exporting/importing gls, glb, glm format components.
    * Support Copying&pasting layer and frame clip. 
    * Support adding Stream Sound to any layer and show the waveform 
      of sound in that layer on timeline. 
    * Support the ActionScript command that gotoAndPlay(sceneName, frameNumber).

    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed the bug that the ActionScript compiler crashed while 
      compiling some incorrect code. 
    * Fixed a bug in shape editing. 
    * Fixed a bug in parsing of motion tween. 

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 41230
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Fixed some bugs that caused crash while importing text.
    * Fixed an ActionScript compiler error.    

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 41215
    Fixed Bugs:
    * Some .SVG files could not be imported or were imported 
      incorrectly;
    * Some small *.WAV files could not be played in the Sound Panel;
    * The mp3 file with Dual Channels sounded incorrectly after 
      being imported.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 41117
    New Features:
    * Optimized the function of importing sound.
    * Modified the parsing for text.

    Fixed Bugs:
    * Incorrect image color when importing SWF movie 
      containing image in 16bits color format.
    * Quicker crashed when importing SWF movie containing 
      corrupted shape.
    * Fixed some other bugs.

    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 40614
    * Fixed some minor bugs.


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 40510
    Fixed bugs:
    * The design window could not refresh after deleting instances in the 
      intermediate frames of a motion.
    * Displayed error after entering a negative Character Spacing value in 
      the Properties panel.
    * No "Prompt to Save" dialog displayed after dragging a SWF file to the 
      main window.
    * Can not import some AI 5 and AI 8 files.
    * Crashed while moving a folder into itself in the Library panel.
    * Sometimes the panels had incorrect docking behavior.
    * Cannot import SVG files if the version of MSXML component installed 
      on the system is below 4.0.


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.5
    Build Number: 40414
    New features:
    * Support both inputting ActionScript and editing imported 
      ActionScript directly.
    * Support auto member list, parameter information and auto 
      code completion while editing ActionScript.
    * Support importing script code written in ActionScript 2.0.
    * Provide some advanced options for motion tween (such as 
      ease, snap to guide line, rotate CW/CCW, etc).
    * Support PNG format of image, including transparent format.
    * Support importing AI, SVG, WMF/EMF. 
    * Support importing SWF file into Library. 
    * Movie Explorer makes navigation much easier between 
      movie elements.
    * Provide publish wizard that helps users to insert SWF to 
      HTML files.
    * Support replacing symbol of instances.
    * New designed UI.
    * More text features.
    * Support copying & pasting guideline. 
    * Support hiding the canvas border. 
    * Adjust the canvas size directly.

    Fixed bugs:
    * Crashed while importing some SWF.
    * Used too much system resource while editing text.
    * The "Undo" command was not valid after changing canvas' size. 
    * If there was no frame in main movie, program would crash when 
      previewing or exporting movie. 


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.1
    Build Number: 31023
    New features:
    * Show frame label list or in Action panel. When using action 
      such as gotoAndPlay(), you can choose the frame label from 
      the drop-down list instead of inputting manually.
    * Provide "browse to choose" function when using action 
      such as Target path.
    * Optimize the size of HTML text.
    * Provide "Locate Symbol in Library" function: 
      The symbol will be selected in the Library panel when using 
      this command to its instance.
    * Auto-scroll layers while dragging a layer to change its position.

    Fixed bugs:
    * Program hanged while importing some *.swf files.
    * Program crashed while previewing some imported *.swf files.
    * Fixed bug of supporting multibytes language.
    * Program sometimes crashed when importing a swf file that 
      used the font the computer does not have.
    * Program sometimes ended when adjusting the size of text block.
    * Can not play or delete a sound if the frame you selected was 
      not in a frameclip.
    * If you set frame label as a number, the action "gotoAndPlay()"
      treats it as a frame number.
    * Can not display the button which did not have instance 
      in its first frame (Up frame).


    Version: Sothink SWF Quicker 1.0
    Build Number: 30929
    Features:
    * Built-in animated effect.
    * Import any swf file and edit it at your pleasure.
    * Support creating motion tween.
    * Support creating mask motion.
    * Common ActionScript to better control a movie
    * Library panel to store symbols 
    * Full customizable text 
    * Flexible fill transform tool
    * Float and organizable panels
    * Easy-to-draw Guide lines of various kinds

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 

    Win 95/98/ME, Win NT 4.0/2000/XP

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INSTALLATION 

    1   Open the zip file with an unzip tool, such as WinZip;
    2   Double-click "Setup.exe"; 
    3   Follow the install wizard.

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UNINSTALLATION 

    1   Click Start-->Settings and choose Control Panel; 
    2   In Control Panel, choose Add/Remove Programs; 
    3   In the Install/Uninstall tab, highlight Sothink SWF Quicker
        and click the Add/Remove button; 
    4   Follow the prompts. 

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UPDATE 

    Please visit http://www.sothink.com/ for updates and other 
    products.

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LICENSE 

    Check out the license.txt for license information. 

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CONTACT US 
      
    Web Site: http://www.sothink.com 
    Tel: +86(27)67848991 
    Fax: +86(27)67848990
    Email: support@sothink.com 
    Postal: 502, 5th Bld, International Enterprise Center (2)
	    GuanShan 2nd Road
            Wuhan, Hubei, China
	    430074
