where do you write your AS code ?

[aneuryzma]

do you write all of it in the main timeline ? or maybe do you embed it into the movieClips ?

[senocular]

Except for extremely small or lightweight movies, all my code will be in classes. There will be some exceptions sometimes where I will still put stop() calls in movie clips if they have no class association.

If I'm not using classes, I'll put code in places where they're used. For example if I code a custom scrollbar, the code that makes it work will be in the scrollbar movie clip, not the main timeline, since the code is specific to that scrollbar.

[mpelland]

as3 ?

on a PC i use an app called flashdevelop (textmate on a mac) and barely touch the Flash IDE. I would use flex if i had a license. I use the document class to tell flash what class file i am using (Actionscript file) and all the code is external of Flash

[justkevin]

All of my code is in either external .as class files or .mxml files.

[ayumilove]

If using AS3, you are forced to write those actionscripts into the timeline of a particular object/stage.
You could also write them inside the .as files