two very early builds of Flash, plus the very latest build of Flash), from Macromedia / Adobe. Here are three 'Standalone' players, versions of Flash Player 9, 10 and 32 (i.e. REMARK: Some say it is possible to run Flex Builder on Linux, here.
What needs to be done is to redirect Firefox to the swf movie and VOILA! Have Fun to develop FLASH/AS3 under Linux! A HelloWorld.swf file is created in the same folder, where your HelloWorld.as file is located. mxmlc ~/path/to/your/file/HelloWorld.as. Now change directory to where your compiler is located, cd ~/.flex/bin.
This is not an ActionScript 3 tutorial, if you want to learn on how to use AS3, I refer you to some other tutorials(in the References section below). Getting Started with the Hello World!Īs usual, let the first application be the Hello World! test. That’s it, you have got everything you need to start programming ActionScript 3 and create your own swf movies. flex/bin, and make the compiler executable, chmod +x mxmlc. zip Archive.( ) Remember where you downloaded your file. Click here for a good Howto.įinally, what we need is the compiler, the free Flex SDK 2.0.1. As there are many HowTos around for doing so I will redirect you to one.
Then you have to install the Adobe Flash Player 9 for Firefox. So I created an ActionScript 3 language file for GEdit(mainly for personal use but you can get it here). First of all, we want our ActionScript 3 code to look as good as it does with the FlexBuilder. With the correct plugins GEdit becomes a powerful editor for programmers. I use GEdit as I really like this little editor. What we needįirst, you are free to use any text editor available for Linux. So I will shortly explain how you can build your swf Flash movies in Ubuntu. Meaning you can compile your Flash movies with the official compiler on Linux. Now Adobe released an ActionScript3 compiler for all platforms. So you did only need the Flash IDE to create the Flash project. It is possible to get rid of the Flash IDE and use the FLAME for Ecilpse(Compiler, ASDT and Flashout). And every time I compiled the same program, it behaved differently.(One day Flash executed code which was commented out) And the Flash IDE is completely useless for programmers, it is just doing syntax highlighting and nothing else. When I started with AS2 it was quite a pain and I sometimes thought I would go crazy, as my Computer started to make some real crazy stuff. This programming language is a great improvement in contrast to AS2. Flash 9 is becoming more interesting since ActionScript 3. Ajax can be quite some pain, if you want to make it look and work the same in every browser. Adobe Flash is becoming a real nice tool to create Web stuff(Games, Sites,…) It is easier to program as developers don’t need to worry about which browser the visitor has. And Flash is actually the only reason I need to boot into Windows. I am currently working on some Flash projects. It is a lovely company doing some high-level web development.
I am working as a Software Engineer at L//P (as a freelance). Flash/ActionScript3 “Programming” under Ubuntu