Can I make Flash Animations with Xical without using a Flash IDE?
No. Apart from Xical itself, that is. Xical, in essence, is a Flash ‘animation’ so to speak (actually, it’s rather a Flash application). But you can integrate into Xical existing Flash animations or the ones you’ve made with a Flash IDE, or any swf compiler like Ming or comparable tools. If you are using Linux you may want to check out F4L or Spalah. If you are a manly developer with hairs on your chest 😉 or think you can manage without a GUI, there are some very interesting and powerful flash tools and libraries, such as SSWF and the Ming flash compiler.