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Big Man
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 01:34
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hey
Im looking into making flash websites but Im just starting out and dont want to shell out hundreds for adobe flash or swish. Are there any open source programs that I can get hold of that will do the same(similar) thing?
Its possible to get open source programs such as open office that come quite close to the commercial thing so why not flash lol
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Jeku
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 01:54
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I'm guessing there's a legal restriction on making software produce SWFs. Adobe has opened the SWF format in an SDK, so there may be legal repercussions unless it were properly reverse-engineered. As far as I know, and I could be way off, is MS' DOC format was closed but it was reverse-engineered, which is why MS can't do anything about OpenOffice and their like opening and saving the proprietary format.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 01:56
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Quote: "so why not flash lol"


I'm worried if you honestly laughed out loud there. But yeah, there used to be a "Swishlite" that was free, but Swish pulled it because no-one was buying their commercial products. I used to have it, but that was two computers ago.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 02:43
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I believe the Eclipse IDE has a plug in, but it doesn't have the GUI. Just all done by code.
I've searched before for a replacement, and could find nothing but that plugin.

I think this might be the plugin:
[href]http://fdt.powerflasher.com/products/fdt-3/[/hrf]

I'm not sure though...


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ionstream
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 06:41
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The only restriction is on importing SWF's, but with exporting theres no restriction, except for the fact that the specification is extremely difficult to get a hang of :/ . Unfortunately there are no complete open source projects out there that can do what Flash does.

However, you can use FlashDevelop with the Flex SDK to build SWF files for free using code. I've used them both quite successfully to build a flash FLV player for my website, so it's definitely up to par. The only downside of course is that you do not get a WYSIWYG editor along with your code.

FlashDevelop

Flex 3 SDK

The way I installed them both was by installing first the Flex SDK, to C:\flex_sdk_3 , and then FlashDevelop. FlashDevelop was able to detect the installation of flex so that I could use it immediately.

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AaronG
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 06:45
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Koolmoves is pretty affordable and extremely powerful.


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Big Man
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 11:09
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Quote: "I'm worried if you honestly laughed out loud there"

ah i dunno why I put lol there :S

@ion stream - yeah i tryed that but it just wasn't for me.

@Aaron - to be honest $49.99 (which is £25.00 to me) isnt such a bad price tag i might look into that thanks oh btw does it have an ide?

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Anonymous User
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Posted: 8th Aug 2008 12:25
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Open laszlo exports applications to both ajax and swf. Quite a few companies have used it, but unfortunately it's almost all xml

???
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Big Man
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 17:54
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are there any other programs that do the same thing as flash but dont cost as much...i supose i can probably spend up to £200(but if i can get for cheaper i would prefer it)
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Roxas
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 18:33
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This? http://www.topshareware.com/Free-Flash-Editor-download-42820.htm

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Big Man
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 21:03
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The file on that link doesnt work but it sounds really good if i can get my hands on it.
BM

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 00:38
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The site sounds dodgy. (It might not be, it just sounds a little dodgy as I read it.) Run an AV/spyware scan if the file did not work.

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 01:32
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Maybe Liveswif? I don't have the link - look for it on google.

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Big Man
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 11:08 Edited at: 11th Aug 2008 11:08
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Ok none of the free stuff seems to want to work for me. Im just gonna have to face the music and possibly...Spend some money
I did however find a copy of serif photoplus 11 that was given to me a couple of weeks ago that i have never installed, so i gave it a go and i think it really is wuite good (well it does alot of the photo editing stuff ill need) it also has the option of making animations.
Does anybody have any experience with this app and is it any good at making web animations such as cool navigation menus??
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BM
[edit] Sorry i forgot to say thanks to everone who has tryed to help

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 12:23
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Most navigation menus can be created using CSS and Javascript.

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The Heavy
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 18:59
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Quote: "Most navigation menus can be created using CSS and Javascript.
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In fact that is the best way to do navigation these days.

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