It may not be best practice but create a public variable in your main (WindowedApplication) file and then access it with Application.application.myPublicVariable. This can be a custom object if you need to have more data.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "bredwards358" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the application I'm currently developing, end users need to log in > to utilize it. Also I need to keep track of who is logged in so that I > can input that into a local database after certain actions. I've tried > using a public variable in a commonly used class, however since an > instance of that class is newly declared when a new window opens up > the value is set back to null, making it unusable. I've heard of using > an actionscript file inside a package used by the App containing the > variables but since the examples I've seen have them as static and > const variables and thus can't be changed from their default values. > So my question is this, is it possible in AIR to pass the value of a > variable from the native application window to another window component? > > To help clear things up, essentially the user logs in and the username > is set as the value of a variable declared someplace, then in another > window, an action takes place, info is recorded in the database and > the app looks up the username in the variable, and records it along > with the other stuff in the db. >
