how does a SWF "remember" user's progress?

[tracey]

Hello,

Apologies if this has been covered, I did some searching of the forums with no luck.

Essentially, I have an embedded swf file that a user must complete in order to progress to the next HTML page (that's another issue I'm trying to learn how to fix!)

What I need is a way to get the SWF to 'remember' that it has been completed if the user navigates back to that HTML page again, so that they do not need to complete it again to move forward. As it is a learning tool there is a lot of backwards-and-forwards expected from users.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated, with thanks in advance.

[PibbTibbs]

check out the tutorials on flashes sharedObject. It will allow you to write data to the users hardrive (like a cookie) that can be retrieved each time a new page is loaded in order to determine the level of completion for that given swf.