Tools:Development Environments and Editors


 * Adobe Flash Pro The commercial IDE for Flash development offers all what is needed to create Flash movies but for an Actionscript coding development approach I recommend one of the external AS IDE's/editors.


 * Adobe Flex 2 Builder The Flex 2 Builder IDE is a custom taylored Eclipse version to build Flex applications and to write and compile ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Player 9.0.


 * Adobe Flex 2 SDK The freely available Flex2 SDK including the Flex Framework.


 * Eclipse IDE The open source Eclipse IDE is written in Java and therefore platform independent. It is used as part of the FAMES or AMES framework.  It is originally a very comfortable IDE for Java development but also features support for many other programming languages, among them Actionscript by either using the ASDT or the FDT plugin.


 * Flash Develop A free ActionScript authoring tool for Windows. Supports AS2, AS3 and haXe.


 * OSX Xcode Actionscript Toolset