Flash Data Persistance

programming flash
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I’m trying to make a flash movie to use on my desktop html page that allows draggable, editable, closable & transparent “Sticky Notes”. Everything works except this: When the desktop gets refreshed, the Notes go away. Is there any way to make the text in them persist between refreshes? I know that I could probably read them in/out of files, but how to delete the data for a note when it’s closed by the user?

I combed the forums/tuts and couldn’t find anything that applied. I’ll attach the swf so you can see what I have so far.
Any help appreciated!

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you can use SharedObjects :slight_smile:

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Thanks ahmed, I didn’t know about sharedobjects.

My next problem/question is this: I need to refer to a text box, inside a button, inside a movie clip, inside another movie clip.
The object structure of Flash eludes my understanding, and I just can’t figure it out.

Do I use the instance names, or the names of the actual objects?
It boggles my mind. Any help appreciated, again…

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you need to use the instance names of the objects, so you’ll end up with something like this:

myButton.myFirstMC.mySecondMC.myTextbox.text = "value"

but what i would do is assign that textfield a variable like this:

myButton.myFirstMC.mySecondMC.myTextbox.variable = myVar

this way, when you need to change the caption of that textbox, all you need to change is

myVar = "value"

hope this helps :slight_smile:

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Hey man, thanks for the help, but the ****ed thing isn’t working…

Could you perhaps slap together a little demo to show me? I’ve never used Flash extensively before this, and I’ve literally been working all day on this with no results.