title: How to have variables accessible across keyframes- AS3
body: <p>I'm working on a portfolio suggestion application in Flash, which consists of two views: ask user for 3 to 4 points of information, and display recommendations based on that information.</p>
  
  <p>The first view is going swimmingly, as all I need are the graphics to be created.  However, I'm having trouble understanding how a AS3 variable can be seen across keyframes when it was declared and initialized on the first frame.</p>
  
  <p>The only multi-view app I've done is a Restaurant Guide flash app that was described in Adobe Flash CS5 Classroom in a Book.  In that example, the only AS function on four of the views 
  was a stop() function.</p>
  
  <p>If I were to do the same in this app, and declare the variables as global in the first frame, will they be accessible throughout?</p>
  
  <p><strong>CLARIFICATION</strong></p>
  
  <p>Two comments have said that my question is unclear, so I hope this makes my question more understandable.  I want to know how, if I gather all the user information on Frame 1 and then switch to a view on Frame 15, to access those variables on Frame 1.</p>