Re: FLASH: Is this possible? (is: storing data?)

[John Dowdell]

I think the core here may be "How can someone using my applet store a set

of choices so that other people could see the same display later"... does

this seem close to what you're looking for?


If so, then the Macromedia Flash Player doesn't have FileIO abilities,

because we're in a browser sandbox... it doesn't have the cookie-like

get/setPrefs found in the larger Shockwave Player either.


Some browsers will let an object in the page ask the browser to set

cookies, and the "JavaScript Integration Kit for Macromedia Flash 5" at the

Dreamweaver Exchange can make this pretty straightforward, in browsers

which support it:

http://exchange.macromedia.com/


I think most people, though, would likely send the data to the server for

the storage. This also makes it easier for other people to retrieve. You'd

need to be comfortable collecting and parsing data into a variable string,

and would also need something on the server to accept and store this data,

but some type of serverside storage is likely the most common way people

disseminate choices, if that general context is of any use.


jd






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