Local shared object - error

[fluen]

Greetings to all,

I am trying to save text via local shared object. But I get the error 1009 cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.

There is a blue arrow pointing to the line where this code is located.

tA.text=sharedObj.data.tasks;

The weird thing is that the code works fine when i run it in an new mxml with out the rest of my code.

Thank you for your input.

//constructor
            private function init():void {
                so();
            
            pimView = this;
            dataModel = new DataManager();
            control = new PIMController(dataModel, pimView);
            appCon = new AppointmentController(dataModel, pimView);
            
        
            }
            
            public function so():void{
            sharedObj = SharedObject.getLocal("tasks");
            if (sharedObj.size > 0)
            tA.text=sharedObj.data.tasks;
        
            }
            
         
         private function saveTasks():void {
            sharedObj.data.tasks = tA.text;
            sharedObj.flush();
         }

[fluen]

Hi all,
I solved the problem by writing this:

creationPolicy="all"

Before I implemented the code, the component instantiation life cycle was trying to acces something that was not yet created.