Intro to FlashDevelop

( January 9th, 2009 )

Although I have played with it in the past, I have started developing using FlashDevelop, which is “a free and open source (MIT license) code editor”.

It is a fantastic environment for ActionScript 3.0 coding and the compilation of SWF files. A big advantage of coding in FlashDevelop apposed to the Flash IDE is speed, code completion and code generation. FlashDevelop is an alternative to Adobe Flex which costs around US$250 and FlashDevelop uses the Flex SDK anyway.

I still use the Flash IDE and timeline based coding, however, I feel that completely dynamic projects are best compiled in FlashDevelop.

Have a look at FlashDevelop’s features or view the feature tour.


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