Saving to a file without using AIR

[froboz]

I'm developing a small Flex app that will run on the desktop in a projector. I need to be able to save a small amount of data to a text file and read it back in later. I realize I could build this as an AIR app, but I don't want users to have to deploy AIR, particularly since it's still in beta.

I was looking at using the fscommand functions in Swish Studio, but I don't see any way to adapt them to Flex (they're very timeline based). Can someone offer some suggestion about another product or method I might be able to use?

Thanks for your help.

[banshee007]

Maybe u could use a shared object to store the data ?

grtz,

b

[froboz]

In the end that was the solution I went for, using a shared object to store the data. But I was storing quite a few objects and each record stored was taking 3K or so. To bring that down I ended up storing everything as one long string and then exploding that back into variables. It's an ugly solution, but it worked.

For my next project I'm looking in to tools like SWFKit to see what I can use to extend the storage possibilities.