Any advices for AS3 Open Source tools?

Question

Hello All,

I am looking for open source tools to do Actionscript3 web development. (Web Sites) I know about the existence of tools such as Eclipse+plugins and Flash Develop for the coding but I am most concerned about the graphics part.

Is there any tool out there to create SWFs with all the graphics for animate with AS3 later? And besides.... how to find out the positioning of all the graphics in the layout withou a tools like Flash IDE.

Is there a similar replacement tool for that?

Thanks in Advance,

H

Answer 1

The easy method would just to make all your graphics as bitmap type of images, eg PNG, JPG, GIF all of which can be loaded by Flash.

You can also compile SVG into vector Flash graphics using the Flex SDK compiler. Various free tools like Inkscape can generate SVG. Another option is the custom 'FXG' markup language for graphics (simple example).