sharedObject not working on iphone?

Question

I've got a shared object that for some reason is working perfectly fine on the desktop but won't work on an iphone, the data is just not saving/loading. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the issue could be? Publishing with air 3.4.0.2710 to an iphone 5 running the latest version of iOS 6 if this makes a difference? Some code samples below...

The code I've got for saving is:

so = SharedObject.getLocal("pGame");

so.data['levelData'] = levelStats

so.data['numCoins'] = totalCoins

so.flush();

And on load it just reads the data back as below:

so = SharedObject.getLocal("pGame");

levelStats = so.data['levelData']

totalCoins = so.data['numCoins']

I'm saving the state on exit, and also on major events. First time I ran this code on the phone the app just froze because it couldn't find the shared object at all. When I wrap the shared object in an if statement to check that it exists before attempting to load data, it runs on the phone but no data loads. Any ideas?

Mark.fromOP · Accepted Answer

So I tried creating a blank file from scratch to get a clean testing environment. I put a text area input called "txtBox" on stage with the following code:

NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(Event.EXITING, onExit)

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("testSO");

if(so){

if(so.data.textData){

txtBox.text = so.data.textData

}

function onExit(evt:Event):void{

so.data.textData = txtBox.text

so.flush();

}

Same results. Works on desktop, does not work on phone. What am I doing wrong???

Perhaps the EXITING listener is not firing properly on your deivce. Add a manual button that saves to the SO, then close the app and relaunch it should now load from the SO.

Also the way you are checking for the SO is concerning to me, I am sure its fine but when I was researching this everyone seems to write it the way I posted above.

var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("testSO"");

txtBox.text = so.data..textData;

if (! so.data..textData)

{

txtBox.text = "no data found";

}

Also I am not sure its a good idea to load text directly from the SO into the textbox you might want to pass it through a variable

Mark.fromOP · Answer

I am sure there is a reason for the "['levelData']" but try getting rid of it.

try this.
//only call the shared object instance once when you first launch the app then load your stuff, use the if function to see if a value exists otherwise assign your variable a value
var so:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("pGame"");
//load your stuff
levelStats = so.data.levelStats;
if (! so.data.levelStats)
{
levelStats = 0;
}
numCoins = so.data.numCoins;
if (! so.data.numCoins)
{
numCoins = 0;
}
//then save as you see fit
so.data.levelStats = levelStats;
so.data.numCoins = totalCoins;
so.flush();

I use shared object extensively for all my data needs and they work flawlessly on all version of air thus far.

Looks like you might be calling the SO class more than once which cause it to crash. Surprised you are not getting an error on the flash simulator.

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