ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

SharedObject.data Property

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For a prolonged example showing how to store address book contacts with a SharedObject,

see the following article, written by me:

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/articles/addressbook.html

Example

The following code creates a SharedObject, named userProfile, that tracks the total

amount of time the user has spent viewing the movie:

var userProfile_so = SharedObject.getLocal("userProfile");

trace(userProfile_so.data.totalVisitTime);

var then = 0;

this.onEnterFrame = function () {

var now = getTimer();

var frameTime = now - then;

userProfile_so.data.totalVisitTime += frameTime;

this.then = now;

}

See Also

“Object Properties,” in Chapter 12

SharedObject.data Property

container for data stored locally or sent to Comm Server

Flash 6

read-only

theSharedObj.data

Description

The data property contains a generic object whose properties are saved to disk when the

movie is unloaded from the Player or when SharedObject.flush() is invoked. If

theSharedObj

is a local SharedObject that has been retrieved from disk, the properties of data contain the

values last saved. Properties can contain the following datatypes: number, string, boolean,

undefined, null, array, and object (custom classes plus XML and Date). Other built-in

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