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>The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications. That statement is wrong. Anyone can create tools that can 'create' and/or 'run' s
by ilike 16y ago
>The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.
That statement is wrong. Anyone can create tools that can 'create' and/or 'run' swf files. Adobe itself provides Flex SDK cost free. It is an opensourced framework.
http://osflash.org/projects http://osflash.org/projects has a list of opensource tools available to create flash content.
- nexneo 16y agoI'm curious, please provide link to any capable tool.
- geeymb 16y agohttp://www.openlaszlo.org/ http://www.openlaszlo.org/ http://www.swishzone.com/ http://www.swishzone.com/
- ilike 16y agoApart from the links 'geeymb' posted, FlashDevelop is a popular free tool to create flash content [flashdevelop.org] Scribd uses 'pdf2swf' from swftools.org to convert pdfs(Not sure if they still use it. ref: http://www.swftools.org/references.html http://www.swftools.org/references.html ) Scaleform depends heavily on Flash[scaleform.com]. Ming library is a nice option to create dynamic swf files on server side[libming.org]. A nice little online editor and compiler can be found here: http://www.victordramba.com/?p=31 http://www.victordramba.com/?p=31 Although there are so many nice, robust open source tools built around Flash, i haven't heard of Adobe actively promoting any of them.
- watty 16y agoFlex: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk They sell a modified Eclipse IDE called Flash Builder but you can also compile and code without it.