Actionscript and other stuff

Given the long time it has been since the last post, I think I'll post about some of the things I'm working on at the moment, rather than waiting until I'm finished before posting.

1. A C++ port of an excellent CSG (Constructive Solid Geometry) implementation I found written in Java called unbboolean, written by Danilo Balby.
2. Setting up a good development environment for making Flash files, and teaching myself Actionscript.

I'm using Eclipse + ASDT, which fortunately works very well - Eclipse is good to work with, and a pleasing feature is when you save your source file, the flash window and console traces are refreshed automatically.

Here is what I downloaded to get this working:

For Eclipse:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ (Get Eclipse classic)

For ASDT (AS development tools)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aseclipseplugin/

ASDT comes with the MTASC compiler, so there is no need to download it separately. However, if you want it, it is here: http://mtasc.org/

Getting the flash player for Win32 and Linux:
The following link is the ONLY place you should go to get the latest version of flash player from Adobe.
These zip files contain the debug and release versions of the plugin, the ActiveX control, and the standalone player for all versions of Flash, including the latest version. The zips also include debug and release shared libraries and standalone players for linux. Save yourself a lot of headaches and just get your flash playing stuff from here, and only from here.
Archived Flash Players available for testing purposes

The thing that's on this page is handy as well:
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control

Other resources:
http://osflash.org/
http://axdt.org/

Tutorials:

http://gotoandlearn.com/ contains some excellent tutorial videos.

I found an excellent blog with a step by step tutorial - its called Open Source Actionscript
I'll work my way through it, but I hope the author keeps updating...

Happy coding!