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   d e c o n s t r u c t i n g
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  final year individual project                               
      imperial college, 2000
      
    (c) 1999, 2000 Simon Wistow 
    
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o Simon Wistow BEng III <smw3@doc.ic.ac.uk>

o Supervisor     : Ian Harries
o Second Marker  : Iain Phillips


- Structure of this directory




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 +-- README.txt              : this document
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 +-- TODO.txt                : What's left todo, duh!
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 +-- Apps/                   : sample applications
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 |    +-- parsefiles         : take an SWF file and extract all the tag information
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 +-- DemoCode/               : CGI Code used during the demonstration
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 |    +-- Circle             : Take a word and split the letters up so that the follow each other in a circle, spinning on their Y axis 
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 |    +-- Rotate             : Take a word and an RGBA Values and then make the word spin about all or some of it's axes.
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 |    +-- Mail               : Show the contents of a POP3 Mailbox in a Flash movie (includes viewing individual mails)
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 |    +-- TraceRoute         : A visual traceroute (unfortunatley the IP to Location code was not completed so the Long and Lat values used are random :/ )    
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 +-- File-Binary/            : Perl module to manipulate Binary files and read arbitary non byte aligned bits, bytes and (d)words in an OO manner (includes Makefile)
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 +-- Flash/                  : Flash Object representation, SWF parser, and Object-2-Stdout Dumper
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 |    +-- Object.pm          : The Object Conatiner class
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 |    +-- Constants.pm       : Various constatnts and library includes
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 |    +-- Parser/            : The parsers, currently only the SWF decompiler
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 |    +-- Writer/            : the writers, currently only one that does it in the style of the MAcromedia sample code
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 |    +-- Tags/              : Tag container classes
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 |    +-- Types/             : Data type container classes
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 +-- Flash-XS/               : Perl module which wraps LibSWF so that it can be used by Perl. Includes Makefile and full documentation
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 +-- LibSWF/                 : Paul Haeberli's LibSWF (Linux version)
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 +-- SWFs/                   : A number of SWFS and the ouput from the parsefiles program
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 |   +-- *.swf               : All the SWFs 
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 |   +-- *.out               : All the outputs
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 |   +-- develop.html        : a page which shows all the tags in all the SWFS, all the tags and all the SWFs they appear in a a few 'collections'
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 |   +-- perlflashg.gif      : a logo
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 |   +-- extract             : a program I wrote to generate the development page
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 +-- Writeup/                : final report in various formats
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 |    +-- final_project.doc  : final report in MS Word 97 format
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 |    +-- final_project.pdf  : same but as a PDF
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 |    +-- final_project.html : same but as an HTML file
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 |    +-- write_up_images/   : images for the HTML
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 +-- Presentation/
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 |    +-- flashpresent.ppt   : presentation in MS Powerpoint 97 format
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 |    +-- present/           : presentation in HTML format
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 +-- SWF Reference           : The SWF file format reference (with corrections) plus some other documents