Understanding Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript 2

10 Arrays

Managing Data in Applications

Every application needs to keep track of some amount of information. It may be contact information, a list of current movies, or a host of asteroids and bullets. As explained in Chapter 8, variables act as containers for different types of information. One way to provide storage for application data is to declare the appropriate variables. For example:

var currentUser lD : String ;

var numberOfAteroids : Number ;

It would even be possible to declare enough variables to hold contact information for a group of individuals. Doing so might look like this:

In this way, enough memory could easily be allocated ...