Yes, Macromedia is pushing hard for SWF to become as commonplace as animated GIFs. Check out my other site: http://openswf.org It will tell you all about SWF, 3rd party products that use SWF, source code for reading/writing SWFs, file format specs, a message board.... everything. Cheers, David.

Unfortunately FLA is not an open format. Macromedia has not published the specifications, so we can neither open or save FLA files. Cheers, David

Its very simple really. First create a movie clip symbol, import the Swish SWF into the movie clip symbol, then place an instance of that movie clip into the up/over/down frame of the button. Ok, its not exactly simple for beginners, but that's because Flash is not simple for beginners, and you really can't blame us for that. Also, you should never have to select or edit every frame if you import the Swish SWF into a movie clip. Once the Swish animation is saved as a movie clip you can move it around in space and time as a single object. Question: Why do you think our SWFs are "shitty"? Cheers, David Author of Swish.

SWiSH team? That would be me, there's only one! Here's my standard answer for Mac users: A Mac version will be at least a year away depending on how many of version 1.0 we sell. Then we'll look at getting a cross-compiler, buying a Mac, and hiring a Mac programmer. Its is a very expensive proposition for us (3-person company) and its a smaller market than Windows. In the meantime the SWFs produced by Swish will play on a Mac, and can be imported into the Mac version of Flash. You might be able to run Swish under an emulator. Cheers, David.

Hi, I'm the author of SWiSH and I'm getting quite a few hits via this site. I just registered so I could see what you guys were saying about me. I'm glad its positive! Cheers, David.