Class Instance access

Is it possible to make an instance of a class available for
reading / writing to on all documents in an application? If so, how
is it done?
I have an application written that asks a user to login. When
the user enters their information (email / password), information
including their name, email address, date of last login, etc. is
pulled from my database and a class instance is populated on the
current page (lower level page). I would like to reference
different parts of this class instance on multiple documents. For
example, I would like to display a label that has a text property
of "Hello, Jack", where 'Jack' is a variable held in the class
instance on another page at the same level as the current
page.

You need to have a look at the Singleton Pattern. Here is a
link that might help you
http://flexrays.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/singleton-pattern/

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whatÂ´s type error have you?
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object containing the class instance?
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calling myfunc(), i.e. "myclassB.myfunc(this)" but I would prefer
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http://img10.imageshack.us/i/2debugscreen.jpg/
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Hey Tracy,
That is exactly what I was talking about in a previous post
you replied to
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=585&threadid=1344350
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somewhat dynamically. The idea being you can have many different
object types that you may want to populate with data from XML. In
my case I am using e4x as the result type from my web services. At
present I have about 6 different classes that call this function.
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???? Any improvements etc????
package . . . .
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* Utility class to convert xml based Objects to class
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* our objects are bound all variables become getter /
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* History
* 03.11.2008 - Steven Rieger : Created class
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yet.
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newDestObject.push( anItem )
else
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Boolean
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* Check to see if this is a simple data type. Did I miss
any?
* History
* 03.11.2008 - Steven Rieger : Created function
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return false;
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* Check to see if this is a custom data type. Add them here
as you need. . .
* History
* 03.11.2008 - Steven Rieger : Created function
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OOP is, but I'm far from experienced in how to implement it... I've
only written about half a dozen classes so far... so I still have a
lot to learn. Thanks for your patience, all of you!)

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