FlashDevelop

FlashDevelop

FlashDevelop is a free and open source integrated development environment for Flash and other programming languages. It has support for code completion, debugging, project management and other features useful for Flash development.
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FlashDevelop: Free Integrated Development Environment

Free and open source integrated development environment for Flash and other programming languages, supporting code completion, debugging, project management and more

What is FlashDevelop?

FlashDevelop is a free and open source integrated development environment targeted at Flash and Flex development. It runs on Windows and provides support for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, HTML, CSS, XML, PHP and more.

Key features of FlashDevelop include:

  • Code completion and suggestion for ActionScript and other supported languages
  • Integrated debugger for stepping through code and inspecting variables
  • Project templates and project management tools
  • Support for compiling and publishing Flash SWF files and Flex applications
  • Integration with compilers like Apache Flex SDK, Adobe AIR SDK and Haxe
  • Extensible through plugins
  • Open source with an active developer community continuing development

FlashDevelop aims to provide a fast, lightweight and easy-to-use coding environment for Flash compared to the larger Flex/FlashBuilder IDEs from Adobe. It has more focus specifically on ActionScript development. With support for code completion, debugging, project management and other helpers it can improve productivity for Flash developers.

FlashDevelop Features

Features

  1. Code completion
  2. Syntax highlighting
  3. Code templates
  4. Debugging
  5. Project management
  6. Plugin architecture

Pricing

  • Open Source

Pros

Free and open source

Lightweight and fast

Good code completion

Supports many languages

Easy to use

Good community support

Cons

Limited IDE features compared to paid options

Fewer plugins than other IDEs

No Mac or Linux support


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