# How to store a value to use at a later time

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-store-a-value-to-use-at-a-later-time/217779>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 1, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-store-a-value-to-use-at-a-later-time/217779 "2007-03-01T19:58:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnnybaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@johnnybaby](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/johnnybaby)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-store-a-value-to-use-at-a-later-time/217779/1 "2007-03-01T19:58:03Z")

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Hi there.  
I’m back ! Finding this site incredibly useful and a wealth of great talent on here…

I wonder if you could help me out !  
I recently posted a topic re. the keeping score tutorial which was on here… I ended up having problems for what I was using it for - so found another which did the job.

What I would like to know is, if someone has scored points on a game i’m creating - could that be stored as a “value” that could be displayed at the end of the game in another frame ?

Here’s what I have at the moment

A dynamic box with the description and var of “score”

An action on a frame with the script:  
score = 0;

A button that once clicked runs this action script (which adds to the score):  
on (release) {  
\_root.score += 100;  
}

Is there a way afterwards to get the total amount from “score” to be used elsewhere ?

Many thanks !

John