====== Open Source Flash Revolution Notes ======

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Here are links to the OS tools I talked about in my presentation. These can be used by themselves, in conjunction with either the Flash IDE or Flex or with [[swfmill]] to give you a robust development environment for creating n-tier applications for the Flash Platform. 

===== Eclipse =====

OSFlash page: http://osflash.org/eclipse
Download: [[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php]]

===== ASDT =====

OSFlash Page: [[ASDT]]

After downloading Eclipse, start it up and:

  - Go to Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install... 
  - Search for new features to install
  - New remote site
  - Name: ASDT
  - URL: http://aseclipseplugin.sourceforge.net/updates

===== XAMPP =====

XAMPP is a kick-ass Windows installer for Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. 

Get it from: [[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html]]

===== AMFPHP =====

AMFPHP is an open source Flash Remoting solution for PHP. 

OSFlash page: [[amfphp]]
Download from: [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=72483]]

To install, you just need to unzip and copy the folder to your web server.

===== PHPEclipse =====

PHPEclipse is an Eclipse plugin for working with PHP files (like the ones you'll need to write to use AMFPHP) :)

The PHPEclipse project contains a really neat web browser View for Eclipse. You can load in the AsUnit UI and the LuminicBox logger into it, as well as your actual test SWF. 

Download PHP Eclipse:
[[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57621]]

Or use the Eclipse update feature with the following URL:
[[http://download.pipestone.com/eclipse/updates/]]

(You only really need to copy the net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.webbrowser_1.1.2 folder into your Ecliupse plugins folder if all you want is the web browser view.)

Note: A problem is that you can't have two instances of the browser open so I recommend using both that and the Basic browser. 

==== To open the PHP Eclipse View ====
Window -> Show View -> Other -> PHPEclipse Web Development -> PHP Browser

==== To open the Eclipse web browser ==== 
Window -> Show View -> Other -> Basic -> Internal Web Browser.

===== MTASC =====

  * OSFlash page: [[mtasc]]
  * Download from: [[http://www.mtasc.org/#download]]

Unzip it into a folder somewhere.

===== Arp =====

[[Arp]] is a pattern-based application framework for the Flash Platform. 

Download the latest ActionScript version of Arp from SVN: 
[[http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/arp/trunk/actionscript]]

===== Muse =====

Muse is an early alpha code generator for Arp and AMFPHP. It hugely simplifies the creation of a CRUD-based skeleton app (what ROR folk would call "scaffolding") for Flash/Flex.

===== AsUnit =====

AsUnit is an open source Unit Testing framework for ActionScript.

  * OSFlash page: [[http://osflash.org/asunit]]
  * Download from: [[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/asunit/AsUnit-installer.zip?download]]

(There is also an AS3 version now.)


===== Flash Remoting Classes for Flash 8 =====

If you're using Flash 8, make sure you have Macromedia's Flash Remoting classes:

[[http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flash_remoting/fl8/releasenotes.html]]