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Ok this might not make any sense, but here goes!

What strategy do you use for organising your projects?

I am kind of stuck in Main.as

For example, imagine a bike. A bike is made up of multiple bodies and joints. Psudo:

Main.as

var world:world
var bikeBody
var leftWheel
var rightWheel
var leftAxel
var rightAxel

This is already a nightmare. But what i really want to be able to do is say:

Main.as

var world:World
var bike:Bike

Where bikes functionality is self contained and contains the leftWheel rightWheel...... properties.

Im seriously mixed up between the logical side of Box2d, and the visual side of WCK as to how best to structure functionality into reusable classes.

Apart from this, im really loving WCK!

I would personally use a combination of pieces in the editor, and if you need them to have code behind the pieces, make the base class of that library object the corresponding class you've created.

I think it's easier if you know what your bike is going to look like to build the associations in the Flash IDE, using wck pieces, joints, and the like and hook in whatever code you would need in tandem with that as you see fit. I have traditionally avoided the Flash IDE for anything that would be code dependent, but WCK has warmed my heart a bit to the idea. It can save a ton of time over trying to do things solely in code when the visual/interactive benefits of WCK help you do things quickly.

Hope that helps at all. I was up all last night save a 2 hour nap, so I'm running on coffee alone