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Question: Can you Flash Developers migrate on Linux ?
Answer : YES

This example explains how.

The software you need is:

ECLIPSE
ASDT
MTASC
SWFMILL

1. Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. Eclipse use a java and you must have it installed in your Linux(BSD) , in my case I use a fedora 3 release , You can also see some instructions in How to Install JAVA on Fedora.

2. ASDT - A plugin for the popular Eclipse platform to work with ActionScript 2 files. It should provide such features like code coloring, code folding, code completion, outlining, refactoring .

3. MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler.

See instruction How to Install MTASC on Linux

4. SWFMILL is a tool to process Shockwave Flash(TM) (SWF) files. It can convert SWF from and to an XML-dialect called “swfml”, which is closely modeled after the SWF file format.

See instruction How to Install SWFMILL on Linux

5. Flashout is eclipse plugin for viewing and logging SWF in eclipse. Flashout is great addition if you use eclipse Actionscript 2 plugin and MTASC compiler.

Unfortunately it does not work on Linux and is not available in Open Source FlashOut in the moment.

6. See little Flash example that was created only on Linux
7. Download Examples Files

Steps :

• download SWFMILL
• open archive with type:
  tar -xzf swfmill-0.2.2.tar.gz
• go to swfmill-0.2.2:
  cd swfmill-0.2.2
• configure,compile and install:
  ./configure && make && make install
• and now when type:
  swfmill
  you must see this
  swfmill 0.2.2
XML-based SWF (Shockwave Flash) processing toolusage: swfmill

  etc ……

• and swfmill now installed
• see current documentation

These instructions explain how to install EnFlash to Linux/Unix Platform. In my case i use Fedora 3 release.

1. Step one : you must install MTASC read this instruction How to Install MTASC over Linux

2. Step two:

• you must download enFlash
• after open enFlash archive, you must download my Shell Script and put shell arhive in main enFlash directory type:
  tar -xzvf enFlashRun.tar.gz
• change permission to files
  chmod 775 asdemo.sh
chmod 775 xmldemo.sh
• Remember asdemo.sh and xmldemo.sh must stay in main enFlash directory
• and go to main enFlash directory and type:
  ./xmldemo.sh
  in this moment you compile enFlash XMLDemo after that you must type
  ./asdemo.sh
  and compile enFlash ASDemo

That is all to work with enFlash Application over Linux

Enjoy )))