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Version 2.0.1 of Xoink! 2D animation library released - Now with support for directly importing converting or playing bitmap Flash animations.

Xoink is a very small, fast, and simple C++ library designed to allow 2D animated user interfaces to be created in Flash or in XML, easily displayed in a C++ application. Xoink uses only the animated bitmaps and text in a Flash file, no complex vector shapes, fills, or tweening, so it is capable of running using only the graphics bitmap blitter. This makes Xoink ideal for use on embedded device, game console, or desktop application where software rendering of vector shapes is slow. Xoink applications can read Flash 3 files directly, or can convert them to native XML or binary formats. Xoink is also licensed under the MIT license, meaning it is completely free.... read more