Editing Adobe Flash (section)

==Players==

===Proprietary===

Adobe Flash Player is the multimedia and application player originally developed by [[Macromedia]] and acquired by Adobe Systems. It plays [[SWF]] files, which can be created by Adobe Animate, [[Apache Flex]], or a number of other Adobe Systems and 3rd party tools. It has support for a scripting language called ActionScript, which can be used to display Flash Video from an SWF file.

[[Scaleform GFx]] is a commercial alternative Flash player that features fully hardware-accelerated 2D graphics rendering using the [[Graphics processing unit|GPU]]. Scaleform has high conformance with both Flash 10 ActionScript 3<ref name="ActionScript 3">{{cite web|first=Kris|last=Graft|website=[[Gamasutra]]|url=http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30745/New_Scaleform_GFx_40_Supports_ActionScript_3_Flash_10.php|title=Scaleform GFx 4 Supports Flash 10 AS3|access-date=2010-10-01|archive-date=September 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907035044/http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/30745/New_Scaleform_GFx_40_Supports_ActionScript_3_Flash_10.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> and Flash 8 ActionScript 2. Scaleform GFx is a game development middleware solution that helps create graphical user interfaces or [[HUD (video gaming)|HUDs]] within 3D video games. It does not work with web browsers.

[[IrfanView]], an image viewer, uses Flash Player to display SWF files.

===Open source===
[[OpenFL]], a cross-platform open-source implementation of the Adobe Flash API,<ref name="intro"/> supports importing SWF assets.<ref>{{cite web |title=Using SWF Assets |url=https://www.openfl.org/learn/haxelib/tutorials/using-swf-assets/ |website=www.openfl.org |access-date=December 26, 2020 |archive-date=August 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814195333/https://www.openfl.org/learn/haxelib/tutorials/using-swf-assets/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Lightspark]] is a free and open-source SWF player that supports most of ActionScript 3.0 and has a [[Mozilla]]-compatible [[Plug-in (computing)|plug-in]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mac.linux.be/content/lightspark-flash-player-continues-advance |title=Lightspark flash player continues to advance |publisher=Linux.be |date=2010-07-09 |access-date=2010-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313121420/http://mac.linux.be/content/lightspark-flash-player-continues-advance |archive-date=March 13, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It will fall back on Gnash, a free SWF player supporting ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 (AVM1) code. Lightspark supports [[OpenGL]]-based rendering for 3D content. The player is also compatible with [[H.264]] Flash videos on [[YouTube]].

[[Gnash (software)|Gnash]] aimed to create a software player and browser plugin replacement for the Adobe Flash Player. Gnash can play [[SWF]] files up to version 7, and 80% of ActionScript 2.0.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnashref.html#runs-on | title=Gnash Reference Manual | publisher=www.gnu.org | access-date=2011-11-12 | archive-date=November 25, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125173326/http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/manual/gnashref.html#runs-on | url-status=live }}</ref> Gnash runs on Windows, Linux and other platforms for the 32-bit, 64-bit, and other operating systems, but development has slowed significantly in recent years.

[[Shumway (software)|Shumway]] was an open source Flash Player released by Mozilla in November 2012. It was built in JavaScript and is thus compatible with modern web browsers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Duckett |first=Chris |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/shumway-looks-to-replace-flash-with-javascript/ |title=Shumway looks to replace Flash with JavaScript |work=ZDNet |date=2012-11-13 |access-date=2013-01-08 |archive-date=February 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209194946/http://www.zdnet.com/shumway-looks-to-replace-flash-with-javascript-7000007352/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Shumway-Mozilla-s-open-SWF-runtime-project-1748816.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121220235709/http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Shumway-Mozilla-s-open-SWF-runtime-project-1748816.html|archive-date=December 20, 2012 |title=Shumway: Mozilla's open SWF runtime project – The H Open: News and Features |publisher=H-online.com |date=2012-11-13 |access-date=2013-01-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iloveubuntu.net/mozilla-publicly-announces-open-source-flash-renderer-mozilla-sponsored-shumway-project |title=Mozilla publicly announces the open-source Flash-renderer Mozilla-sponsored Shumway project &#124; Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog |publisher=Iloveubuntu |date=2012-11-12 |access-date=2013-01-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118011221/http://www.iloveubuntu.net/mozilla-publicly-announces-open-source-flash-renderer-mozilla-sponsored-shumway-project |archive-date=January 18, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In early October 2013, Shumway was included by default in the Firefox nightly branch.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xmir_perf_oktoberfest&num=1 |title=[Phoronix&#93; X.Org vs. XMir On KDE, Xfce, Unity Desktops |publisher=Phoronix.com |date=2013-09-24 |access-date=2013-10-04 |archive-date=September 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913172832/http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xmir_perf_oktoberfest&num=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Shumway rendered Flash contents by translating contents inside Flash files to HTML5 elements, and running an ActionScript interpreter in [[JavaScript]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ |title=The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project |date=November 12, 2012 |last=Villegas |first=Jet |publisher=Mozilla |access-date=March 11, 2016 |archive-date=February 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201003653/https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It supported both AVM1 and AVM2, and ActionScript versions 1, 2, and 3.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Willis|first1=Nathan|date=November 21, 2012|title=Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway|url=https://lwn.net/Articles/525719/|website=LWN.net|access-date=13 June 2014|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308171439/https://lwn.net/Articles/525719/|url-status=live}}</ref> Development of Shumway ceased in early 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/23/flash-replacement-shumway-is-as-good-as-dead/|title=Flash Replacement Shumway is as good as dead – gHacks Tech News|date=2016-02-23|access-date=2016-09-17|archive-date=July 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701180523/http://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/23/flash-replacement-shumway-is-as-good-as-dead/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the same year that Shumway was abandoned, work began on [[Ruffle (software)|Ruffle]], a flash emulator written in [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]]. It also runs in web browsers, by compiling down to [[WebAssembly]] and using HTML5 [[Canvas element|Canvas]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/graphs/contributors |title= Ruffle, a flash player emulator. List of contributors over time on GitHub. |website= [[GitHub]] |access-date= November 22, 2020 |archive-date= January 24, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210124031741/https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/graphs/contributors |url-status= live }}</ref> In 2020, the [[Internet Archive]] added support for emulating SWF by adding Ruffle to its emulation scheme.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/|title=Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive|date=November 19, 2020}}</ref> As of March 2023, Ruffle states that it supports 95% of the AS1/2 language and 73% of the AS1/2 APIs, but does not correctly run most AS3 (AVM2) applications.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}