SWF opensource editor, maybe

[ceora]

Hi guy's i'm starting a project to make a good opensource SWF editor. This project born because there are no free alternatives to make flash files.. Vectorian Giotto is good but the interface is a mess, and you can't scripting, and i think it have problem on exporting the bitmap alpha value.

Unfortunaly i'm not a experienced programmer, I 've started programming in c++ two week ago. At the moment i'm using visual studio c++ express edition( and this is another problem because is featured limited), i 've tried other IDE but i can't configure it. So for the moment Visual Studio is perfect for, thanks also to the form editor that make the life easy.

this is what i got so far... it's only the interface with missing icon and it is in Italian ( I'll do it as soon as i can). The main Idea is to reuse some of the Inkscape code for the tools(maybe) and some of Flashdevelop for the action scrippt features. But duo to my skills i'm starting to make my own code.

... at the moment i can't post attachment.

However if someone want help me, thanks! i'm opened to any ideas.

As i said i'm starting coding two weeks ago... so the main work is up to you. This is a seed that i hope grow

[ryanjon2040]

Thats a good idea ceora. Good Luck

Check these C++ Editors. They are free and excellent:

http://netbeans.org/features/cpp/
http://www.codeblocks.org/

[ceora]

Thanks, i've look at it but i can't configure it, to make it works i need to download extra package, however does netbeans have an internal gui builder? Now the problem is that i've already programmed some part of the ui like the hide pannel button and the canvas resize... do you think that i can reuse the code ( i think it's net framwork ) on netbeans? so another idea is to use directly GTK + Glade but as i said i 've problem to configure the IDE.

However thank you very much !!

[ceora]

now i'm trying netbeans with qt and it seems the perfect choice, thanks again

[ceora]

i've made some progress! user interface is at 60 %.... need to do the Actionscript editor, key-frames support for layer and the export/import functions, save files and etc... what i've done now is to simply draw a editable quad curve!

All is done with Qt but i still need some one for help! when i'll be able i'll post some screen shots of my program!!