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Although JAVA_HOME is pointing to the JDK, the problem with the ant task javac is that the javac command in tools.jar in %JDK%/lib is not found. Either copy tools.jar or do some registry change.
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=556816

CPP Compiletask in Ant involves following settings (XML Code):








Visual Studio Environment Variables
Problems involving environment variables with the command line Visual Studio Compiler cl.exe can be found here. These must be set:

vs2005 c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\
psdk c:\program files\microsoft platform sdk\

First, go to vs2005 install path c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 8\vc, run vcvarsall.bat to set environment variable; then c:\program files\microsoft platform sdk\, run setenv command: eg: setenv /SRV32 /DEBUG. I use it to make the program work properly.

Using C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat adds the following to the PATH Var
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\bin
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\PlatformSDK\bin
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin
c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727
c:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages

Event Handling in Action Script for Flash and Flex is can be quite challenging if you do not get enough information of what events are available from the offline manual.

AS reference in flash says:

Some event object properties are defined in the W3C specification but aren’t implemented in version 2 of the Adobe Component Architecture. Every event object has the properties listed in the table below. Some events have additional properties defined, and if so, the properties are listed in the event’s entry.

Adobe Action Script Articles – Introduction to event handling in ActionScript 3.0
W3C specification – Dom Events

Additonally
Debugging and Logging in Flash works like this
http://broadcast.artificialcolors.com/index.php?m=20040401

There are a lots of tools to build rich media web applications with actionscript and flash. While Adobe Flash itself has a very basic editor without code completion some other IDEs and even compilers look promising:

Misc

• OpenSourceFlash - Very good flash library resource

IDEs

• Flex Builder – Adobe AIR technology based IDE + framework to build application on top of flash.
• FAME – is a step towards enabling fully open-source Flash development on the Eclipse platform.
• Flash Development Tools (FDT) - another plugin for eclipse platform

HTML JS Flash Detection and Embed Tool – SWF Object