Creating a CDROM from an old, existing Flash course

[chrisflynn]

Hi all

I've been tasked with creating a CDROM course from an existing online course. The problem is that this CDROM will have to track the user's progress as they go through it, even if they close it and re-open it later, and it has to do it completely offline.

Adobe AIR was one option we kicked around, but the original course was built in Flash MX (we think) and publishing it in AS 3 breaks everything. And we want to avoid rebuilding this thing if we can.

Is there any other way of tracking a Flash CDROM without using AIR? Any suggestions will be great.

Thanks
Chris

[northcode]

Store the state in a local shared object and read it back at startup to find out where in the course you should jump to.

[chrisflynn]

Thanks...But how would that work? JavaScript? Wouldn't there be tons of security issues?

[northcode]

Local objects are persistent objects that you can use in Flash to store data between runs. There's no security issue, Flash doesn't let you do anything "insecure" with a shared object (just store and retrieve data).