Hi there and welcome : ) AS far as I know the only attempt of an Open Source visual IDE was Flexible (http://www.flexiblemxml.com/), but I think John let the project alone quite a long time ago. So, most of the tools are command-line based or plain IDEs.
To code, the best open bet would probably be FlashDevelop: http://www.flashdevelop.org/ To compile, if you target AS2/FlashLite you can use MTASC (command line compiler). If you target AS3 you can either use haXe (both a compiler and a language similar to AS, http://haxe.org/) or Adobe's Flex SDK (http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/flexdownloads/) And besides haXe, no, the OS ActionScript is just the same as the commercial ActionScript. Most of the times you could compile a OS project with the IDE. Probably not the other way round, as I don't know any tool supporting fla compilation, atm. And the final piece would probably be SWFMill (http://swfmill.org/) which is a xml2swf tool that picks up your assets (fonts, images, sounds, etc) and creates a swf with a library to which you later "inject" AS code with either MTASC or haXe. You don't need it if you use Flex SDK because it has embedding capabilities by itself. Then you have other really nice projects such as Red5 (FMS open clone) and many others that you can see in the project's page: http://osflash.org/projects This is my introduction every time I explain OSFlash to newcomers : ) Take a look to those tools and don't hesitate to come back with more questions. Cheers! Juan On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:22 AM, MIKO's Support, Design and Development Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to grasp how osflash works. I'm a total newbie. I normally use > Adobe Flash, but would like to explore the open source options. I am a good > programmer but pure code-based environments get me a little bit bored. What > are the visual-programming IDEs out there? > > Also, are open source forms of Actionscript any different from standard > Adobe/Macromedia Actionscript? > > Thanks, > > MIKO > > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.com http://loqueyosede.com _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
