What tools do I need to develop in ActionScript (in Linux)

Question

I\'ve never developed Flash before but I have a project where I want to use an ActionScript 3 library and I\'m not sure what tools I need to start. To further complicate thi

Answer 1

I use the Flex SDK, Emacs (Sub your editor of choice) and Ant as my build tool. I blogged about how to get everything set up here:

http://blog.apterainc.com/software/setting-up-a-flex-development-enviroment-in-gnulinux/

Adobe has an free alpha release of FlexBuilder for Linux, I thought it was quite unstable when editing MXML files, but if your doing strict actionscript work, you may find it useful. you can get that here:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder_linux/