Opensource alternative to Flash?

[mips]

A lot of people misunderstood. I want flash like utility for developing animation not for playback.

Then you should say so, don't be vague.

[Footissimo]

Flash 8 may well work on Wine with some fiddling - it's got gold/platinium rating on the WineDB

[sbjaved]

Then you should say so, don't be vague.

Sorry. You're right. I should've been clearer.

[deanlinkous]

http://www.synfig.com/

[littlest_elf]

there's this new thing - 3dmlw which seems to be a very promising alternative to flash, especially if you're looking for something to make animations etc with, not just a player. 3dmlw supports several 3d file formats and has blender support, a little bit of skeleton animation too. worth to check it out (:

[geoken]

Flex builder Linux + Inkscape is the closest you will come to the Flash IDE workflow using native apps. The flex compiler (which was open sourced by Adobe a long time ago) can treat SVG's as native sprite objects. It actually casts the as Shape (IIRC). It works better than trying to pull resources from compiled SWF's that aren't perfectly formatted (ie. the stuff you'd get from apps like synfig and Ktoon).

Using this workflow will probably also teach you that vectors aren't always optimal and in many situations you get a smaller file size and better performance with bitmap assets.