Category Archives: Tools of the trade

FlashDevelop 3.0.0 released

My favorite open source project ever, FlashDevelop has released: FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RTM (English, 4MB) . I started with coding in the Flash IDE, when I realized that there are better programs to code in I started working with SE|PY (ActionScript 2 only). I really loved that program, but it never made it to ActionScript 3 [...]

TextMate AS3

I’ve been using a code-editor for years now. I started with SEPY and now I’m using FlashDevelop. Both on Windows. A colleague of mine still uses the Flash IDE (on a mac), so I decide to help him with his transition. Sadly there is no free editor for the OSX that handles AS2/AS3, but TextMate [...]

FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RC2 released

I said it before: I don’t like to regurgitate, but program is so good that I can’t help myself…. As we are now approaching the final release of FlashDevelop 3, this release is the last feature release. FlashDevelop.org – View topic – FlashDevelop 3.0.0 RC2 released. FlashDevelop is awesome! If you never used it, give [...]

Convert SWF to AVI – part2

How to convert a SWF to an AVI (without spending any cash)? I have written about this question before [Covert SWF to AVI (SWF2AVI or SWFtoAVI)] and my answer was back then: swf2avi, a freeware project by Mario Pizzinini. SWF2AVI is not an active project (last update from 2002-08-27), but does the job very well. [...]

Flash tools of the trade: flash-plugin switcher

Very recently I wrote about a Firefox extension: the FlashTracer written by Alessandro Crugnola. This extension will only make the hearts of Flash developers go faster, which it did in my case: I love this plugin! And although this is a relative new Firefox extension, it already helped me debug a application that I build. [...]

Flash tools of the trade: debug

I try not to regurgitate info from other blogs… But I have to talk about a entry from Alessandro: because it makes me “extremely” happy. The creator of SE|PY: Alessandro Crugnola has created his first firefox extension. Good for him, but what it´s to me? Well… it’s one of the first tools that makes it [...]