This tutorial is aimed at beginners and those who use Adobe's IDE to develop. If you already use FlashDevelop, or are confident enough in your IDE of choice to use my source code, feel free to skip this tutorial. My development environment of choice is FlashDevelop for a variety of reasons. Its free, it is well documented and it has many plugins available. Additionaly, it has many useful features such as:

• Auto-Completion
• Jump to declaration
• Configurable short-cut keys
• ASDoc Support for both generation and code hinting
• Project exploration and management panes
• Configurable viewports( able to have documents side by side )
• Comment block folding including ability to specify regions
• Extensive template and snippet support

And these are just some of the things I use on a daily basis. There are other reasons I like FlashDevelop as well but ultimately the reason for this (hopefully) short tutorial is not to convert others but simply to provide a common place to start for those who don't know, as well as a way for me to only have to support one development toolchain. With that in mind, lets get started!

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