SWiSH Max is a flash creation tool that is commonly used to create interactive and cross-platform

Cross-platform

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 movies, animations, and presentations. It is developed and distributed by Swishzone.com Pty Ltd, based in Sydney

Sydney

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, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. SWiSH Max primarily outputs to the .swf format, which is currently under control of Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems

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SWiSH Max is generally considered to be a simpler and less costly Flash creation tool in comparison with Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

. SWiSH Max does not support some Adobe Flash features such as ActionScript 3.0, shape tweens, and bitmap

Bitmap

In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to...

 drawing capabilities. It does, however, include general Flash creation features such as vector drawing, motion tweens, and symbol editing. In addition, SWiSH Max incorporates a number of automated effects and transitions, which make building certain Flash elements such as buttons, advanced transition effects, and interactive Flash sites simpler. One drawback of SWiSH Max is its inability to open or save .fla files, which limits exchanges between other programs to final .swf files.

The scripting used in SWiSH Max is a variation of ActionScript

ActionScript

ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. . It is a dialect of ECMAScript , and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of...

, commonly known as SWiSH script. SWiSH script contains most ActionScript 2.0 functionality, including support for ActionScript 2.0 classes in SWiSH Max 3.

SWiSH Max was designed for the Windows operating system

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and can run on a PC with a Pentium III

Pentium III

The Pentium III brand refers to Intel's 32-bit x86 desktop and mobile microprocessors based on the sixth-generation P6 microarchitecture introduced on February 26, 1999. The brand's initial processors were very similar to the earlier Pentium II-branded microprocessors...

 300 MHz processor, 64MB RAM, and a monitor capable of 1024x768 screen resolution and 16-bit color display.

SWiSH Max3 added features such as a knife drawing tool, advanced shape operations, and ActionScript 2.0 classes.

The latest release of SwiSH Max is SWiSH Max4.