Question

My game stores levels in large strings. Not very long, the length is about half my desktop on a 1080p screen. Flash can handle it fine, but when I do something like

var levels:Array = ["Large String
gets broken up because of the len
gth"];

Flash IDE tells me that I will need to end the string literal before a new line. I can’t, since it’s too long. (For the IDE, not flash enviroment)

How should I store the string?

Answer 1

You could also embed the text files in your app in much the same way you would embed a Bitmap.

[Embed(source='test.txt', mimeType='application/octet-stream')]
private var TextData:Class;

...

var thing:String = new TextData();
trace(thing);

Note: a mimeType of ‘text/plain’ does not go down well with the compiler hence the octet-stream.