11.1 The Basic Directory Structure

Before we start creating content, let's lay out the basic directory structure for our application.

Follow these steps:

1. Create a directory named AppName on your hard drive. The AppName directory will contain everything in our project, including source code and final output. In a real project, you'd use your application's actual name instead of AppName .

2. In the AppName directory, create a subdirectory named deploy . The deploy directory will contain the final, compiled application, ready for posting to a web site or other distribution medium.

3. In the AppName directory, create a subdirectory named source . The source directory will contain all source code for the application, including classes ( .as files) and Flash documents ( .fla files).

Your application directory structure should look like this:

 AppName/    deploy/    source/ 

In our example application, we have no external assets such as sounds, text copy (Word documents, etc.), or artwork (e.g., scans , Photoshop files, or Illustrator files). In a more complex scenario, we'd create an AppName/assets folder to contain those external files.