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Flamebird Studio Info
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	Flamebird Studio is an opensource integrated development environment for BennuGD, which is free opensource compiler for a language derived from "DIV Games Studio". 

	More information about BennuGD can be found at the official website. 

	Flamebird Studio is being written in Visual Basic 6. 

	Flamebird Studio's is the continuation of the popular IDE for Fenix Firebird, developed by JaViS. Our aim is to create a proffessional environment,  avoiding  the  bugs  of  previous  versions. 

	Flamebird Studio provides many tools to simplify development with BennuGD, some of the features it has are: 

		1-. A powerfull text editor, with syntax  highlighting ,  
		2-. Code  completion (intellisense like technology which can be found in Microsoft VC++ or VB),
		3-. Code tips (which help you to remember the parameters to be passed to a function), 
		4-. Any other characteristics editors should have (searching tools, bookmarks, etc). 

	Although Flamebird Studio can work with individual files, it supports creation of projects, which helps you to keep your files organized. You can browse your project files through the Project Browser. Working with a great amount of code lines is no longer a problem since Flamebird Studio incorporates a useful tool to keep a record of all the variables, process, constants, etc., and not only of the file you are working with but also of all the project files. Sometimes we need to work with different versions of BennuGD for different projects. 

	Flamebird Studio allows you to configure the compiler you want to use for each of them, saving you from having to change it continuously. We have been careful  to  distinguish  local configuration from non-local configuration in a project file, allowing you to share your Flamebird Studio project file with other developers without coming into conflict with their configuration. This is very useful when a project has more than one developer. When managing a project, keeping track of issues, requests and other data can be a bit thorny. Flamebird Studio allows you to define trackers, which will help you to store this information in the project file. Visualize your Maps, Now you can open 8-bit and 16-bit map files easily (the map editor is in an early version though). Plug-in support; You can create your own plug-ins for Flamebird Studio or use the ones which were created for Firebird 0.8. This makes Flamebird Studio a highly customizable IDE. Many other features, which you will discover meanwhile you are working with Flamebird Studio... 

	Flamebird Studio is still in a beta version and so there are many features that  haven't  been  added  yet  such  BennuGD Files editors 
	(pal, fpg, maps...). At last, we would like to have a complete environment for BennuGD that combines simplicity with productivity. 


Flamebird Studio Notes
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	Flamebird Studio is a Open Source Project, so a copy of a licence file called 'COPYING' must be in the program directory. If the licence doesn't exist please write us. 


	To run Flamebird Studio in your PC, you will need GDI+ installed.


Flamebird Studio Credits
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	The Flamebird Studio development team is currently formed by four developers:

		JaViS   (javis@users.sourceforge.net) 
		Danko   (lord_danko@users.sourceforge.net) 
		Viator  (viator_sg@users.sourceforge.net) 
		Bluesteel (merkoth@users.sourceforge.net) 
		Imanol  (eledhtelamion@hotmail.com)

	Additionaly, several people have offered to work as betatesters.
	We  want to express our heartfelt thanks to all of them. 

		coptroner (coptronic@hotmail.com)
		Goku Jr  (divaio19@hotmail.com)
		Makinor  (jldiez10@hotmail.com)
		Kolham  (isintegration_studios@hotmail.com)