Mike Chambers shares some Flash Best Practices

Found this on Mike's Blog today. Mike suggests the following:

• Create a base class contained within a symbol. All events and data flow through this class.
• Create Screen Classes and symbols for each screen. They communicate by broadcasting events.
• Virtually everything is contained within a class, and thus all ActionScript is externalized in external ActionScript files.
• There is no code on the main timeline.
• There is code in multiple symbols

One best practice suggestion on my part would be to use the default code directory, namely "Program Files/Macromedia/Flash MX/configuration/include/" Place all .as files here and maybe even create additional folders inside here, for each project. This way you could move your .fla anywhere and still have access to the scripts...

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