programms for flash creating ?

[freewind]

Hello All.
I'm sorry for my english.
I need the opensource programms fo creating/editing flash (for linux or for windows). Adobe Flash CS3 is the best, but is very expensive for me.
Can you help me?
Thank you.

[Smygis]

I think it has to be written first. ;)

Adobe Flash is not best one, Its the only one. Big diffrence.

[Afoot]

I think it has to be written first. ;)

Adobe Flash is not best one, Its the only one. Big diffrence.
Thus it is the best...

I think there are some small-time free software projects that try to make a flash "maker", but AFAIK none are usable.

[merinda]

http://www.osflash.org/linux

[freewind]

Thank you

[jespdj]

Have a look at this, for Windows:

SWiSH Max (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=max) - costs about US$ 100 (much cheaper than Adobe Flash), made by an ex-employee of Adobe

SWiSH Max is pretty easy to use. I've also used another cheap program to do some Flash work, but I don't remember the name...

Do some searching using Google and you'll find pages like this one:
The Top Ten Open Source Actionscript Tools (http://flash.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d4141b69206a4700d09e619b53be2b.html)

[barmazal]

SWiSH Max gives different type of output and im not sure it will work on Linux or the original poster will buy it. person who cannot buy 400 Flash CS3 professional which is much much better than SWiSH, he won't buy SWiSW either.

[ankursethi]

:: sigh :: Flash seems to be one of those things stopping people from switching to Linux. if some small company somewhere can make a half decent Flash environment/creator/editor/toaster then why can't the OSS community? Flash was an open standard, right?

Probably it's too difficult a task. Anyway, I don't miss Flash at all. The less jumping, dancing banners the better.

[skullmunky]

the interesting thing is - now when i do work in flash, and even more now in CS3, the majority of it isn't even in the flash program - it's just writing actionscript code, and now UI description files. so the whole interface of flash is completely unnecessary to actually build flash apps, except for creating graphic and animation assets. it's now turning into something more like a kind of oddly designed IDE.

depending on what you want to do, you may be able to use something other than Flash. not to make commercial Flash websites, of course - but if you're getting paid to make commercial flash websites, eventually you can save up your spare change and buy a legal copy of Flash.

if you want to make awesome interactive algorithmic animations and drawings (like, the Praystation and presstube side of Flash) try Processing.

[winch]

the interesting thing is - now when i do work in flash, and even more now in CS3, the majority of it isn't even in the flash program - it's just writing actionscript code, and now UI description files. so the whole interface of flash is completely unnecessary to actually build flash apps, except for creating graphic and animation assets. it's now turning into something more like a kind of oddly designed IDE.

Perhaps in that situation Ming (http://www.libming.net/) could be a potential alternative.

[jespdj]

SWiSH Max gives different type of output and im not sure it will work on Linux or the original poster will buy it. person who cannot buy 400 Flash CS3 professional which is much much better than SWiSH, he won't buy SWiSW either.

What do you mean with "SWiSH Max gives different type of output"? The program doesn't work exactly the same as Adobe Flash, but you can make standard Flash files (SWF) with it that work in Adobe's Flash player.

I didn't say it works on Linux, and the original poster asked for Flash creation tools that work on Linux or Windows.

[rictus007]

Some people say that F4L (Flash for linux) is the most simillar, from the one form Adobe. I'm will install it now...Let see what happen

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=69156&highlight=F4L