Editing Adobe Flash (section)

===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.