[osflash] What is the best "reliable" way to run Flash 8 on Linux?

[Timothee Groleau]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:19, warren harding wrote:
> http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/09/04/how-to-dreamweaver-and-flash-
>8-running-on-ubuntu-dapper/

On Gentoo, using wine 0.9.28, Flash installs directly without the need to do 
manual file copying or registry editing.

I think it's been working since 0.9.24 actually, but I'm not sure about that.

Anyway, under wine, the IDE works alright but I have encountered several 
issues: some flas just won't open for some reason and rendering of the Flash 
content in the IDE can be painfully slow (sometimes doesn't even refresh 
properly), especially if lots of text is involved. At times, typing text 
content into a static text field has so much latency that some letters are 
skipped. That's a quite irritating. Other than that, it certainly does work 
well enough for me to get real work done.

Tim.


>
> That's what I do.
>
> :)
>
> On 1/6/07, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just migrated my desktop to Ubuntu 6.06. So far the experience has
> > been very pleasant ^^. However, I do miss using Flash 8 IDE as some of my
> > projects are very design oriented. I know that there are two possible
> > ways to run Win32 apps on a Linux box:
> >
> > 1) Using wine;
> > 2) Running Windows on a Virtual Machine (Parallels, for example)
> >
> > Which one would you recommend? Is it viable? Could you share your
> > experiences?
> >
> > Last, but not least, I could try replacing Flash 8 IDE by using Free
> > vector drawing programs together with swfmill.. but that's another
> > history. I'd like to know if it is viable to run Flash 8 IDE on Linux
> > first :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Marcelo.
> >
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