I was happy to have gotten Ant working in compiling AS3 with FlashDevelop.
Then I was checking out some of the samples on Ted Patrick’s site. I’ve hardly done anything in Flex 2 yet (or Flex 1.5 for that matter), but decided to try some of the samples in my new setup. All it took was creating an mxml file in the project and changing the build.xml so that the source file was that mxml file instead of the .as file. Worked so nicely, I decided to create a separate template for that. So here it is:
http://www.bit-101.com/misc/AS3Project.zip
Again, you are not going to get any code hinting or anything going on, but I actually really like some of the features of FlashDevelop’s xml editor. If nothing else, it does a good job at tag closing, indenting, and auto-quoting, which makes hand-coding xml fairly painless.