User Guide

SharedObject 1085

To c rea te private values for a shared object--values that are available only to the client instance

while the object is in use and are not stored with the object when it is closed--create properties

that are not named

data to store them, as shown in the following example:

var my_so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("superfoo");

my_so.favoriteColor = "blue";

my_so.favoriteNightClub = "The Bluenote Tavern";

my_so.favoriteSong = "My World is Blue";

for (var prop in my_so) {

trace(prop+": "+my_so[prop]);

}

The shared object contains the following data:

favoriteSong: My World is Blue

favoriteNightClub: The Bluenote Tavern

favoriteColor: blue

data: [object Object]

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

The following example saves text from a TextInput component instance to a shared object

named

my_so (for the complete example, see SharedObject.getLocal()):

// Create a listener object and function for the <enter> event.

var textListener:Object = new Object();

textListener.enter = function(eventObj:Object) {

my_so.data.myTextSaved = eventObj.target.text;

my_so.flush();

};