user.data.name + user.data.name

[djungle]

Hi,
I'm no Programmer but can anybody tell me if this is possible!?¿¡

I have a form that saves user's info into a sharedObject, the problem is that I don't know how to get the data to add into the file not to overwrite itself!
This here is my code :

on (release) {
user = SharedObject.getLocal("user_info");
user.data.usrName = usrName.text;
user.data.thought4theDay = thought4theDay.text;
user.flush();
_root.gotoAndStop("Menu");
}

Can anyone tell me if this is possible!?! And if it is, possibly give an example of the code do so.

Thanks
Merçi
Gracias
Choukran
Xièxiè

[Jesse]

How about:

on (release) { 
user = SharedObject.getLocal("user_info"); 
user.data.usrName = user.data.usrName + usrName.text; 
user.data.thought4theDay = user.data.thought4theDay + thought4theDay.text; 
user.flush(); 
_root.gotoAndStop("Menu"); 
}

Which is the same as:

on (release) { 
user = SharedObject.getLocal("user_info"); 
user.data.usrName += usrName.text; 
user.data.thought4theDay += thought4theDay.text; 
user.flush(); 
_root.gotoAndStop("Menu"); 
}

That will concatenate (add) the new text to any exisitng text.

[djungle]

Thanks for the code Jesse, I see how that will work.

Another question though!

Is it possible to index each additional entry, and and have all entries (from that post) connected?
Ex:
user.data.NameOfEvent = user.data.NameOfEvent + NameOfEvent.text;
user.data.Cost = user.data.Cost + Cost.text;

What I would like to do is be able to select the NameOfEvent in a dropdown box and have the cost and other details of that Event shown (on another frame in their respective text.box)!

Many thanks!

[Jesse]

Sorry I don't understand that second bit of your question...

[djungle]

Hi,
Basically I'm working on an Activity Monitoring system for an NGO!
The way it works is : They will enter data such as : "the activity", "date", "cost", "place" etc...

what I am trying to do is to write all the activities and their info into one shared object??? Is there alternatives.

I would like to have a combobox that would look into the shared object for "the activity"...and populate the textfields with the activity's info : "date", "cost", "place" (Is this possible???)

Thanks

[Jesse]

I would be using arrays in the SO then. That way you can give the array to the drop down box, and when the user selects item 1 from the activity array you know that the price wil be item 1 int he price array and the locationw ill be item 1 in the location array...

[djungle]

Thanks again Jesse,
Would you be able to show me how to code that array?
Also I'm not sure how to dynamically populate that dropdown box!

Thanks for the help!
Django

[Jesse]

Something like:

on (release) {
                                      user = SharedObject.getLocal("user_info");
                                      user.data.usrName.push(usrName.text);
                                      user.data.thought4theDay.push(thought4theDay.text);
                                      user.flush();
                                      _root.gotoAndStop("Menu");
                              }

I haven't used any of the prefab drop downs in Flash before so you're likely to figure that out as fast as I can.

[djungle]

I've found the source code I needed.
Colin Moocks address book application is the same type of thing I was trying to do :
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/...dressbook.html
Enjoy.