So I am once again doing stuff with flash and actionscript, and finally attempting to make a game. As per general good code convention, I wish to have no code or items on the timeline. Chances are I’ll use a finite-state machine to switch between game states, but my question is about menus; namely, how should I go about making them and switching in/out of the game screen when the game changes state? Should I add all the menu elements to an array and iterate through them, adding and removing them as children to the stage? Or is there a better, more accepted method for making aforementioned menus? My google results turned up very little information on how to actually make the state switch, so how do you all do it?
