There is Flash Builder product by Adobe Flash.
Is it possible to use Adobe Flash product as Flash Builder when working with FLEX SDK? Have you the experience?
Thank you very much.
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There is Flash Builder product by Adobe Flash.
Is it possible to use Adobe Flash product as Flash Builder when working with FLEX SDK? Have you the experience?
Thank you very much.
The answer is sort-of. Flash can use the free FlexSDK compiler. But it cannot process MXML the scripting language used to create flex framework applications.
However, there is a great open source free tool called FlashDevelop which can do both and works with the Flash IDE, or the FlexCompiler. http://flashdevelop.org.
It does not a have the FlashBuilder design view, and its profiler is not as complete as the one in FlashBuilder. But personally I prefer using it.
UPDATE: Below a reply says that flash cannot use any other SDK. This is not completely accurate a this time (Adobe CS5.5) Flash has its own compiler that does not include any FlexFramework classes. And so there are at least 2 flavors of compiler for flash. One through Flash, and one through Flash Builder.
Additionally there anyone can use the free flex SDK as a command line utility to compile swfs. This is what underlies Flash alternatives such as FlashDevelop, and the FDT Eclipse plugin, among other resources that compile swfs.