Take ALL of your code off the timeline
Well almost all...Most have already heard about the new feature in the Flash 9 preview for AS3 that allows you to specify a document class (a class file for the main timeline), and if you havent heard... well now you have. This is a pretty cool feature and will do wonders for getting nearly all code off the timeline. The bummer is that its an AS3 only feature. I realize that many people have been doing this for a while now already, but I never knew it was possible to do until now.  Keith Peters, has posted a nice article on how to do this is AS2. Pretty slick!

August 23rd, 2006 at 3:39 am
There’s more on this over at Aral Balkan’s blog:
http://aralbalkan.com/360