saving and loading files

[Guest_imported]

Can anyone help me with the code to save variables to a .txt or .xml file and then load them back in? I don't know much about xml or flash, but I'm trying to save variables that I will then use in another program.
Thanks, Jamie

 

[rgstewart]

If you want to write a TXT file from a projector file (it won't work in a SWF), use the fscommand "save" ...

fscommand("save", "myFile.txt"

That will write a TXT file with all the variables in the current timeline (I think ... it might be ALL your variables, period!).

If you want to write from a SWF, and do it online, you'll have to look into CGI solutions (and I ain't gonna be no use to ya there - sorry!). _____________________________________________________
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[oldnewbie]

For security reasons, the save command doesn't work anymore in Flash MX. In fact it doesn't work in the standalone projector(6) player.

Using the sharedObject is the only way to do it (

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/local_shared_object/)

or server side scripting, at which I can't help you either! Regards,

 

[rgstewart]

Hey I didn't know that Old - bummer! So the only way we're going to be able to do this from now on is to create in and publish from 5?! Macromedia have some GREAT ideas, don't they ... ? _____________________________________________________
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[oldnewbie]

Will work from 5, if and only if the end user still has the version 5 standalone player... Which is less and less likely!
Regards,

 

[rgstewart]

Old - "save" never worked in the stand-alone player ... I was talking about making a PROJECTOR file. As far as I know projector files are self-sufficient ... they don't require any other software support.

Does this mean that "save" might still work in a projector file made with MX ... ? _____________________________________________________
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[oldnewbie]

To me the standalone player means a projector file,
and no, save won't work, if the projector included in your .exe, is version 6 of the standalone. Regards,

 

[rgstewart]

Ahhhhhhhhhh ... the stand alone plaer gets incorporated into the EXE, thus making it playable. Now it ALL becomes clear _____________________________________________________
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[BigBadDave]

I can do a simple PHP or ASP or PERL script to save a file Regards

David Byng

http://www.byngdesigns.co.uk

davidbyng@hotmail.com

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