I have made a small and dirty video on how set up FlashDevelop to work with the flex3 sdk so you can create flex applications for free. This video is to get people in the right direction so when they come to the first meeting they should be able to use the ide to develop and test with. FlashDevelop has many other uses and I wil be going over as many as I can at our meeting.
Till then feel free to watch this video and get started today using flex and Air for free.
Video Link: http://www.as3apex.com/videos/flashdevelop_demo.html
As a action script coder you have some choices you may not have known about. One of which is my personal favorite named FlashDevelop found at http://www.flashdevelop.org. One of the great things about this coder IDE is that you can easly create a flash, flex or Air project complete with code hinting of custom classes. the other really cool function of this IDE is how it can make getters and setters as well as Event Listener methods just by selecting the var or eventlistener and using Ctrl+Shift+1. The other really great thing about this IDE it’s completely free. There is also a great snipit and template system.
Now as you may already can tell this IDE is a stronger alternative for the Flash IDE where as people who use Flex my feel they can already do most of the things that FlashDevelop provides in the flex builder. Even then you can’t go wrong with FlashDevelop since you can compile with the flex SDK or the Flash IDE from with in one place.
