Comments on: The Trick to Using SharedObject

By: Doctor Dalek

Doctor Dalek — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:40:38 +0000

I am trying to use the shared object .getRemote() method, but I can’t seem to get it working. Once I got it to say that flash player stopped a potentially unsafe action, does this mean that it worked? I want the data to show up for multiple users. IE, if someone clicks the button, everyone knows that someone clicked it, and how many times it has been clicked by everyone. The button is a movie clip that looks like a button.

By: Gerbear

Gerbear — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:49:03 +0000

Beautiful, solved my problem as well. I have users saving in multiple slots, and couldn’t for the life of me figure why the game was only allowing two slots to be filled. Fixed it right up!

By: coggia

coggia — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:56:14 +0000

Nice tips,
but in your way of saving objects to the Shared object,
how can you retrieve the values?

if I save to So like in your example, and the, try to trace the (mySo.gamedata) i get undefined value

But if i save things to Shared Object like :
mySo.data.gamedata = “data”;

I’m able to retrieve the data

Why’s that?

By: Nkululeko Msimang

Nkululeko Msimang — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:02:29 +0000

I have a similar problem with Flash ‘remembering’ Shared Object data. I need to create an app that checks if SO’s can be stored locally but what happens is, even though the user may deny that data be stored locally, you can still read SO.data.* variables although there is nothing inside %appData%…localhost. This caused a lot of confusion because it could recall data but if you closed the instance it wouldn’t be able to recall the data again. So for a while the program would return false results and say it could store Shared Objects on the machine.

Is there anyway of actually forcing Flash to read from disk, besides say, flushing and using the result to see if it could flush and reading if true else return an error.

By: John McDermott

John McDermott — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:57:05 +0000

Here is the text of an Adobe Bug I submitted (FP-6193).

“Since CS4 SharedObject will remember what you told it to write but getLocal(…) will not actually go and get the new values from the file. To delete the SharedObject fully and re-acquire it from the file, you need to attach it to a dummy MovieClip which is added to this Class and then removeChild used to throw it out of memory

In Flash Player 10.2 this work around does not work. I use KewBee plugin switcher; 10.1 works 10.2 doesn’t work.

I actually got the shared object file and manually changed a numerical value in the “.sol” file and trace out the results of the get action. 10.1 the file is ingested back into the SWF, 10.2 it is not ingested back into the SWF. The problem exists across browsers, as I have checked Internet Explorer 8, Chrome, Firefox 3.6 and Firefox beta 4.0b11. I have checked plugin Global settings to do with storage and privacy and they all seem to be OK.

This is stopping me from using SharedObjects to manage functionality between SWFs. Surely it would be better all round if the SharedObject just actually got the data from the file when it says it is going to, instead of “remembering” what it thinks the data should be. “

By: Jayc Santos

Jayc Santos — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:37:44 +0000

Hey, I haven’t encountered it yet but thanks for the heads up with 10.2. I’ll look into it and see if something has to be done, maybe write a new post if its significant.

By: John McDermott

John McDermott — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:54:16 +0000

I am having Flash Player 10.2 issues with doing cross SWF shared Object access.

Using KewBee plugin switcher I have it working in 10.1 or earlier but failing in 10.2. If I find a solution I’ll post here. In the mean time any thoughts?

Oh the “Allow 3rd party storage” option is enabled in the global settings

By: Sharat Achary

Sharat Achary — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:59:40 +0000

What more could one ask for, this article did clear me a lot of stuff !
Thanks – JC