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USING ACTIONSCRIPT 3 WITHOUT HAVING A COPY OF FLASH CS3?

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39808 playground
14 posts

I have Flash CS3 at work, but I would like to practice my Actionscript 3 coding skills at home, and I only have Flash 8 at home.

Is there a program, like maybe the Free Flex program, that would allow me to create AS3 code files (.as), and somehow use it with Flash 8 swf files?

Or do I have no choice but to upgrade to Flash 9?

Thanks….

Posted 21 days ago
41307 ZacharyKnight
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You could always use the free trial for a while…

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/

- Z -

Posted 21 days ago
39808 playground
14 posts

I did that, and my 30 days are up!

Posted 21 days ago
38635 flasher3015
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If you want to learn pure Actionscript 3 .. you can find some free tools that will help you code files. But you will have to work only with classes.. A good start can be Eclipse and FDT

Posted 21 days ago
34746 Albo
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You can compile the classes also with mtasc that now support AS3 too.

Posted 21 days ago
9879 michaelhejja
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I did that, and my 30 days are up!

Turn your computer clock back 30 days.

Posted 21 days ago
18193 ourben
305 posts

The Flex SDK is free.

FREE !

Get it!

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK

...and you can target Flash 10 too!!!!

Posted 21 days ago
30621 tomez
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Posted 21 days ago
36675 LuizZak
160 posts
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Hell yeah, FlashDevelop is awesome

Posted 21 days ago
39808 playground
14 posts

Oh man…you guys are all so advanced-sounding, with a lot of heavy coding background experience…! Intimidating! I’m coming from a designer background…

I’m going to try all of these suggestions at home..thanks…

Posted 21 days ago