FlashDevelop is an integrated development environment

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 (IDE) for Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

 application development.

It uses the free Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex is a software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform...

 SDK in order to build ActionScript 3 and MXML

MXML

MXML is an XML-based user interface markup language first introduced by Macromedia in March 2004. Application developers use MXML in combination with ActionScript to develop rich Internet applications, with products such as Adobe Flex....

 applications, the free MTASC

MTASC

MTASC is an ActionScript 2.0 compiler written in the Objective Caml programming language by the company Motion-Twin. It is free software and can be used alone or with other tools like swfmill to produce SWF files, which contain interactive multimedia content playable with the Flash Player...

 compiler to build ActionScript 2 applications, and the free HaXe

HaXe

haXe is a versatile open-source high-level multiplatform programming language described on its website as a "universal language".It can produce:* Flash applications and games* Multi-platform client-side web applications* Apache CGI web applications...

 toolkit to build ActionScript 3, PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, Neko

Neko

-Technology:* Neko , a cat screenmate application* Neko * Neko Entertainment, a video-game developer and publisher-Other uses:* Neko , a person who enjoys dressing as a cat in cosplay...

 or JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

 applications. It also has code completion and highlighting for XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

, HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

, PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, and CSS

CSS

-Computing:*Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web development*Central Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...

.

FlashDevelop is free and open source software

Free and open source software

Free and open-source software or free/libre/open-source software is software that is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code...

, mostly written in C# and is built on the efficient Scintilla editor component

Scintilla (editing component)

Scintilla is a free library that provides text-editing functions, with an emphasis on advanced features for source code editing. SciTE , Notepad++ and Notepad2 are standalone editors based on Scintilla.-Features:...

. It is extensible with a plugin architecture and is a .NET Framework 2.0

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

 application only available for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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.

History

FlashDevelop was developed by the members of FlashDevelop.org in 2005 as an alternative to Adobe Flash, with hopes of providing a free developing environment, which is particularly useful for beginning programmers, as paying for an expensive development environment may not be worthwhile for a novice. The current FlashDevelop core team consists of two members: Mika Palmu and Philippe Elsass. As an open source project, multiple users and others interested are able to optimize the program, as well as write plugins for any features that may be missing.

Features

FlashDevelop includes the basic features expected in software development IDE's.

• Project system with configurable compiling
• Project templates for AS2, AS3, Adobe AIR, HaXe development
• Project file explorer tree with basic file manipulation features
• Configurable hotkeys
• Application and project level options
• Plugin system with each feature developed in a separate plugin
• Plugins can be enabled or disabled to improve performance
• Import Flex Builder projects
• Supports multi-lingual code files

Editing

FlashDevelop includes code editing features comparable to Eclipse

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...

 or Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...

.

• Code completion
• Code folding
  Code folding
  Code folding is a feature of some text editors, source code editors and IDEs that allows the user to selectively hide and display sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations...
  
  
• Code generation
• Code tips with JavaDoc
  Javadoc
  Javadoc is a documentation generator from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from Java source code.The "doc comments" format used by Javadoc is the de facto industry standard for documenting Java classes. Some IDEs, such as Netbeans and Eclipse automatically generate...
  
   comments
• Syntax coloring
• To-do list
• Bookmarks
• Code outline
• Macros
• Zoom
  Page zooming
  In computing, page zooming is the ability to zoom in and out a document or image at page level. It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g...
  
  
• Exploration of classes in SWF
  SWF
  SWF is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.,...
  
   and SWC
  SWC
  SWC can refer to:* Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress* Semiwadcutter, a common shape of ammunition* Single Wire CAN* Simon Wiesenthal Center* Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School * Sir Winston Churchill High School...
  
   files
• JavaDoc
  Javadoc
  Javadoc is a documentation generator from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from Java source code.The "doc comments" format used by Javadoc is the de facto industry standard for documenting Java classes. Some IDEs, such as Netbeans and Eclipse automatically generate...
  
   creation from methods
• Color picker and editor
• Snippets library

FlashDevelop has built-in code completion that includes a wide range of possible API.

• Platform API (based on used Flash Player version)
• User classes, methods, and variables
• SWC library
  SWC
  SWC can refer to:* Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress* Semiwadcutter, a common shape of ammunition* Single Wire CAN* Simon Wiesenthal Center* Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School * Sir Winston Churchill High School...
  
   classes and code
• Events when working with listeners
• JavaDoc
  Javadoc
  Javadoc is a documentation generator from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation in HTML format from Java source code.The "doc comments" format used by Javadoc is the de facto industry standard for documenting Java classes. Some IDEs, such as Netbeans and Eclipse automatically generate...
  
   comment tags
• Typed array values

Publishing

FlashDevelop is not a platform of its own, but rather acts as a code editor for the Adobe Flash Platform

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

, therefore publishing a project into an SWF

SWF

SWF is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.,...

 File that can be run in Flash Player is of prime importance.

• Compile projects via Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
  
   IDE
• Compile AS2 projects to SWF via MTASC
  MTASC
  MTASC is an ActionScript 2.0 compiler written in the Objective Caml programming language by the company Motion-Twin. It is free software and can be used alone or with other tools like swfmill to produce SWF files, which contain interactive multimedia content playable with the Flash Player...
  
  
• Compile AS3 projects to SWF via Adobe Flex
  Adobe Flex
  Adobe Flex is a software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform...
  
   SDK
• Quick build to SWF for single files
• Compiler errors/warnings panel

See also

• Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash
  Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...
  
  
• HaXe
  HaXe
  haXe is a versatile open-source high-level multiplatform programming language described on its website as a "universal language".It can produce:* Flash applications and games* Multi-platform client-side web applications* Apache CGI web applications...
  
  
• Microsoft Visual Studio
  Microsoft Visual Studio
  Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...
  
  
• Eclipse
  Eclipse (software)
  Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...
  
  
• List of rich internet application frameworks