Simple folder/package structure

[jamesbeith]

Im learning about Classes.
Simple question for you all.
What is the best/standard way to organise my folder/package structure for the classes I write, in particular to placing Main.as for example.
Some structures I have seen in other source code are:

com.example.quickstart
com.agency.examples.project
com.agency.project
src

Im sure it makes no real difference but it would be nice to know what the best practice is.
Many thanks in advance.

[GrndMasterFlash]

well, i guess it's all about how big your project is.
most of the time i have a "Classes" folder and in that I'll have a "Utilities" folder, Classes has all of the Document classes for my main components and Utilities have things like sound controls, image loaders, xml parsers etc.., most of the time that's all i need, however! if you have a really big project with many different modules and each module has many class files you might want to break it up into modules then.

like

Classes [shell.as,
Utilities[xml.as, loadStuff.as, soundStuff.as]
UserLogin[login.as, register.as, validate.as]
Games[pong.as, chess.as, flying.as]
Navigation[map.as, userInterface.as]
]

it's all preferace and organization

[tragic]

I gotta a question about file/folder structure when just using AS as well. How do you tell your main class where your other classes are? Whenever I try to use another class I made I get "1120: Access of undefined property char."

[ggalan]

under:
publish settings, flash, classpath
you can set the folder where you keep all your classes

[jamesbeith]

Thanks all!

[tragic]

setting the folder as you suggested didnt work, but I tried changing the way I created an new object. Im reading Essential Actionscript 3 and he declares new objects from classes he has made with:

var pet;
pet = new VirtualPet();
This dosent work for me, I just tried:

var pet:VirtualPet = new VirtualPet();
And now it works, which is the best method or does it not matter which I use?

[.ral:cr]

They should work both, but is best to declare the type of a variable for compile time error detection, and is also faster.

var pet :VirtualPet;
pet = new VirtualPet();




com.example.quickstart
com.agency.examples.project
com.agency.project
src

Im sure it makes no real difference but it would be nice to know what the best practice is.
Many thanks in advance.

I personally hate this structure because:
1. i have to do a lot of importings
2. if i need to edit them i have to navigate through a lot of folders.

But is used if you want to distribute a class, to not conflict with others classes.


My projects are split in 2 folders:
- a folder with common classes that i can use in any project, and as it is in a continuously development will be painful to me to have a lot of folders, i simply prefixed them with RC, like RCPhoto, RCFlv...., SWFAddress, swfmacmousewheel...
- another folder with the logic of the application