Using AS3-components within Linux

Hi there,
I'm still kind of new to the ActionScript 3 part within flash
and never did work with any official Adobe components yet, but
since I want to do so now I need them. I tried using FlexSDK but
for now to no avail. There sure is the possibility of
MXML-projects, but unfortunately not for Linux, which I'm working
on.
I tried different tutorials and examples on the net; didn't
find anything working though. Most of these scripts try to import
some fl.* classes that I don't seem to have.
Is it possible to make a pure AS3-project with the official
components from Adobe within Flex SDK on Linux?
Or is there some other way I maybe could import them from
Flash/FlexBuilder?
Thanks in advance,
User

Thank you Ned for that information. I have finally got some time to get back to this project. Here is what I have found. I put a trace on those objects and they are defined as TextInputs and RadioButtons.
And here is what my Timeline looks like. They are on the form layer and as is shown they animate upward from frame 1 - frame 10. Then in frame 20 the actionscript is called that I have listed previously, as well as a stop(); command. Then when the form is submitted the player proceeds and there is an animation to drop the form layer down and raise a Thank You prompt verifying that the form was submitted. And then in frame 50 another stop(); is called.
I am just missing why these objects are invisible when the .fla is rendered. Any help is appreciated to get this problem solved.
I have done preliminary testing to have the form there (no animation in) and when the form is submitted the Thank You slide covers the form. This graphically works, I have not tested the code yet. So, I may have found a round about way to fix the problem. I would still like to know though why when the textInput and RadioButton elements are placed in a graphic to be animated, they disappear.

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Question1. Is zero padding using dd necessary in Linux platform ?No, never did that, not even on Solaris.
Question2. If dd command has to be run in the LUN, shouldn't that be done before we create the partition table ?Of course it should.
What would be the point of creating the partition table and after that overwriting it with 0-s :)
Do you use a NAS for ASM disks?
Solaris: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e24616/storage.htm#CACDHHJJ
Linux: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e22489/storage.htm#CFACJAGB

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