Hello. I've been working with Shared Objects recently and this is what I've found... btw, these are only my assumptions on how they work. (local only)
If the object doesn't exist, Flash creates an object in memory to use while your app runs. Nothing is written to disk until you close the app or execute a flush. If you flush the data, the object is written to the disk. However, if you update the object and flush again the memory object is written to the disk again completely overwriting the current disk object. The problem I've run into is trying to have two files "share" the same shared object. I had File 1 create a shared object and write some data. I then had File 2 update that shared object with some new data. I then tried to have File 1 read that updated data... but it didn't work. I even tried to have File 1 write more data to the object then tried to re-read it back into the file, but that didn't work either. In fact, File 1 over wrote the entry that File 2 added to the object. My assumption is that Flash only reads an object from disk once and creates a copy in memory. It updates the memory copy and only writes the data back to disk upon closing the file or executing a flush. Every subsequent read references the memory copy and does not re-read the disk version... so after the first read, updates are one-way - memory to disk. My workaround was to have File 1 create and manage my main shared object then have File 2 create a temp shared object that I read into File 1 and write the data to my main shared object... then deleting the temp shared object from File 1. This seems to be working fine as File 1 does the deleting and will re-read the new temp object when it is created again. In your example, if you only have 1 file managing the shared object, you should be able to read the data property and iterate through the parameters you added and assign them back to the textfields on some event. Hope this helps. Again, these are just my observations. gregb -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ktt Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 2:26 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: [Flashcoders] Update TextFields after SharedObject was updated Hello, I have two TextFields and their data written to SharedObject. How to update these TextFields after data was updated in SharedObject? Could you recommend any good resource? Regards, Ktt _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
