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I found it totally inaccessible. I knew how to programm in C, C++98 with QT, Python, but I couldnt figure out just how to get started with flash. Somehow i must have missed the easy part of it.

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You could just write Actionscript .

It was quite a pleasant and consistent experience compared to writing browser JS at the time(10+ years ago).

How to call it? Call it by using script tag in HTML? Call it from javascript? Fileextension '.as'?

You use Adobe's Flash IDE (now called "Adobe Animate") to compile ActionScript to a .swf binary file, which you then embed in a web page with an <object> or <embed> tag.

Adobe Animate can now export animations and scripts to HTML5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Animate

Thanks. Does one always have to pay (Adobe Animate is trialware) to do Actionscript programming? Probably thats where I got stuck last time (wasnt looking too hard into paid solutions)

Flex [0] is the open source CLI compiler.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex

Matches my experience as well. It was a great language for experimenting with UI design (itemrenderers anyone?). It’s a bitter pill for me swallow to have to watch it fade away.

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