# \[FMX\]Save/Load variables in games? No cookies!

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 30, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-save-load-variables-in-games-no-cookies/71883 "2004-11-30T11:16:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreedyGoblin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/greedygoblin/32/913_2.png) [@GreedyGoblin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GreedyGoblin)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-save-load-variables-in-games-no-cookies/71883/1 "2004-11-30T11:16:05Z")

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**Background**

Once, I wanted to make a large RPG-game. I wanted it to be like  
Zelda, Diablo2 style of RPG with much Hack-and-Slash but also a  
little quests and a big world to explore. (a BIG game)

A game needs to be programmed, so I had to choose a programming  
language. I chose Flash, because its easy to make graphics in it, and  
its not that hard, i thought.

The game was planned to be a stand-alone-application that  
you could have on your computer and play whenever you wanted to.  
Much like any other game. But, this was not something I thought of in  
the beginning, games you make in Flash usually is web-games, right?  
But this RPG I wanted to make was not an online-game, and I didn’t want it  
to be either, because it would be to big to download everytime you  
wanted to play it.

A RPG-game needs a save game/load game function. But Flash cannot  
write to external files! This was terrible! Now, its a great safety protection  
to make flash files not write bad things into your computer. But I need it  
in order to save my games!

There is this way, that flash can load variables from external text files. But is  
there some way that I dont know about to make it save there to?  
One way is to make the player manually copy a mass of code (variables) from a window in the game, into the textfile. But that’s rather boring, and tiresome.

**My question:**  
\*\* Does anyone know a way to write from flash to a textfile?\*\*

I know theese other two ways of “saving”.

1. Using cookies to save and load.
2. Using an online database of some sort to store/load variables.

But they’re for online flash applications only… So I’d rather not use them.

I appriciate all the help I can get! 🙂