Ok, so I came across this post by Keith Peters in which he explains a way to mimic a document class in AS2. Danny Patterson had the same idea and blogged about it around the same time.
So, I’m in the middle of trying to get my head around OOP and figured this would be a great way to rid myself of the timeline crutch once and for all. Well, not so fast. There were a few pitfalls which I’d like to document here for posterity. In the next few days, I’ll add to this post and show what had to be done to get it working and the leaps of knowledge I had to go through to get there.