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Beginner's Guide to FlashDevelop. Two common misconceptions about Flash Professional: first, you have to buy it in order to make Flash apps and games; second, it's a decent tool for writing code.
Totally untrue. In this article, we'll see how to use the free Windows application FlashDevelop to work on Flash projects -- both with and without Flash Professional. What's So Great About FlashDevelop? You can create Flash projects with any text editor, so what makes FlashDevelop so special? Here are my top six favorite features: School of Flash. One of the many things that have changed in ActionScript 3 has been the way that Flash handles depths, or the stacking order of objects on the stage.
In ActionScript 2, there was a practically unlimited number of depths into which you could place an object. These depths determine what objects appear in front of other objects. An object with a depth of 100, for example, would cover up an object with a depth of 50. But in ActionScript 2, these depths didn't have to be consecutive.
In other words, if you only had 2 objects on the stage, you could very well set one of them to a depth of zero and set the other one to a depth of 1000. Apps.
Getting started.