I’ve prepared a simple project that shows how I use MTASC, Alcon, Ant, Mozilla, on Linux to create flash movies. You could just as well run this on Windows or Mac. Before you attempt to run the ant build.xml script, take a look at it and modify the variables to match your current setup. Also, move the Alcon.htm I’ve included in the project to your Alcon folder. This should be the same folder that contains the Alcon....
Over the past few months I have been experimenting with creating flash animations using completely free software for Linux and Windows. Here is what I’ve been using: jEdit – editor/IDE – http://jedit.org ANT- build tool – http://ant.apache.org/ MTASC – actionscript 2 compiler – http://www.mtasc.org/ swfmill – create asset libraries – http://iterative.org/swfmill/ Alcon – for debugging – http://fgpwiki.corewatch.net/wiki/Alcon You’ll need Java installed before you can install Jedit or Ant....
Download the java-based installer from http://www.jedit.org/?page=download In a terminal, cd to the directory you downloaded jedit to and enter the command: java -jar jedit43pre3install.jar Linux users might want to run the installer as the root user so that it’s installed for all users.</li> * You should be able to start jedit by typing jedit in a terminal. If your system doesn’t recognize the command, you might have to add the directory the jedit executable is located in to your PATH environmental variable....