[osflash] Linux Flash Development

[Stephen Moore]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Schell <efsubenovex at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I just bought a new server [first computer I've fully built for
> myself] which runs Ubuntu. I like it so much I've been thinking about
> switching from my native MacOS to fully submersing myself in Linux. Are
> there any AS3 developers out there that code/design exclusively in Linux or
> do you *need* the retail Flash IDE? Lately I've been building the GUI of my
> apps with Flash and using TextMate to code up the brains. I'm guessing that
> GEdit/Kate are Linux answers to TM, but what is a good solution for working
> on FLA's? If I'm working in Linux and my designer sends me an FLA, what
> would be an appropriate (the best) open source alternative to edit it with?
>

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=742981 :)

or if you prefer to use gedit (now days I do, but I haven't updated
the howto yet) then there is this plugin
(https://code.launchpad.net/vigedit) that makes gedit behaviour
similar to gvim.

and here are syntax files for mxml and actionscript
(http://code.google.com/p/flashbsm/source/browse/testing/language-specs)

and here is a collection of plugins for gedit
http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins

it's very possible to develop flex applications in linux, but for the
flas, then you need the adobe flash ide, theres no way around that

(unless you can get it working through wine
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7120)
though  judging by that page your chances are small.....
Though Flash 8 works in wine, but it's very slow once you get a
sizeable amount of elements on the stage)