Swf communicating with Swf

alright, I am loading in content from one overall swf that is
the player interface. the content has areas where the user will
input data. There will be many spots where the user will input data
in many different (external swfs) sections of content. I need the
player interface to be able to keep track of all of this
information so that later I can reference all this data at once. is
this possible?
Thanks a lot,
Dan Frazee

it's possible, but the flash player isn't going to keep track
of anything. you'll need to write code to track whatever you want
tracked.

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