[F8] Writing To A Text File
I am creating a game of "snake" and need to be able to write the end score and the name of the person who played the game to a text file in the users documents, as the end file will be a .swf for an assignment I was wondering if this was possible and if so, what code I would have to use.
The code I am using for the game is similar to this code: http://www.strille.net/tutorials/snake/index.php
thanks in advance if you can help.
steph.
FlashKit > Flash Help > Flash ActionScript
Posted on: 02-20-2008, 06:00 AM
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