Is there anything like Macromedia Flash MX for ubuntu?

[CowPie]

I liked programming in it for school, but C and all that stuff looks scary compared to moving clouds and making games and stuff. Is there anything like it on linux?

[celloandy]

You might be able to generate something comparable to Flash effects using a combination of SVG and SMIL, or something similar, but if you're looking for a nice GUI environment like that, then there probably isn't, though you might be able to actually run Flash MX in wine or CXOffice or something like that...

In any case, I don't think Flash is in any way practical for general purpose programming. Even games beyond the most simple wouldn't be practical in Flash. If you're looking for a system to let you graphically build general purpose GUI apps, take a look at Glade, or maybe KDevelop (these would still require at least some understanding of a general language like Python [which is actually pretty easy to pick up] or C++).

Andrew

[CowPie]

You might be able to generate something comparable to Flash effects using a combination of SVG and SMIL, or something similar, but if you're looking for a nice GUI environment like that, then there probably isn't, though you might be able to actually run Flash MX in wine or CXOffice or something like that...

In any case, I don't think Flash is in any way practical for general purpose programming. Even games beyond the most simple wouldn't be practical in Flash. If you're looking for a system to let you graphically build general purpose GUI apps, take a look at Glade, or maybe KDevelop (these would still require at least some understanding of a general language like Python [which is actually pretty easy to pick up] or C++).

Andrew

Thank you for your quick & informative reply.

Well I'm kind of hooked on flash due to school, actually I'm sure Macromedia sell themselves to educational systems as much as MS "donate" MS products to schools :) However, Flash's programming language Actionscript has prepared me well for other languages, such as a switch loop, case loop, with, for etc...

I will look into kdevelop. What I need is the graphical aspect of moving things, I can't fly blind yet.

[Quest-Master]

All of the MX products work under CrossOver Office; maybe even Wine now. :o Try it.

[Jad]

Flash 4 Linux
http://f4l.sf.net/
http://www.openswf.org/
http://drawswf.sf.net/index.html/
http://macromedia.mplug.org/