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Flash and Open Source
Anders Schneiderman asks: "I'm involved in a project that's planning to create open source toys for educating people around complicated policy questions (e.g., policy on prescription drugs). We'd really like to use Flash as our main language, but we're concerned about the fact that the major Flash development tools cost $500--more than some of the community group folks we want to involve can afford. I took a look at Sourceforge, and while there are plenty of projects that offer ways to create Flash for free, there didn't seem to be any v.1 general development tools. Did I miss something? If you want to build Flash and you don't want to pay $500, how do you do it (aside from copying somebody else's, which as Bill Gates told us is just bad, bad, bad)? And if there aren't any powerful open source tools for it, any thoughts on why?"
Not just Bill Gates, but US TOO... Copying is against the license agreement, and we are all about enforcing license agreements, right?
You guys are absolutley useless. The question was not "what is your opinion of flash" it was "Are there any cheap (not even GPL'd) ways to create flash?" Why don't you keep your criticisms to yourself.
Here's my answer to your question, albeit, not a very easy one.
If you know php, you can build flash files with PHP. Now I'm not saying this is the best way to do it, or in any way easy, but with enough programming it COULD do it. Can someone out there come up with a useful answer?
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it is a web form application. no flashy crap. he is only using it becasue of the dynamic feedback.
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