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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Directories, Files and Saving oh my!

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Black Hydra
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 02:01
I have been working on a 3-D space invaders game for a couple days now and the game is down solid. I wanted to add a high scores table however, and that would require saving data into files I believe. I already have scoring it just isn't saved.

I looked through the file commands and I am afraid my general computer knowlage just isn't up to snuff. I feel stupid (probably am) for asking this but what exactly do I do to save the name and score of players in a text folder.

I am not sure how to go about it. I know it would involve read and write commands but with directories, files and the likes I am stumped. If someone could get me over this roadblock I could finish my first game.
Scraggle
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 02:15 Edited at: 19th Oct 2003 02:18
I find that the easiest way to save stuff like that is to have it in an array first (it probably already is).

Something like this:

HiScore(10)
and
HiScoreName$(10)

Then all you have to do is:

SAVE ARRAY {filename},HiScore(0)
SAVE ARRAY {filename},HiScoreName$(0)


Then to load them back in use:

LOAD ARRAY {filename},HiScore(0)
LOAD ARRAY {filename},HiScoreName$(0)


Note the use of Zero in the array dimension. Always use zero regardless of the size of your array.

Hope that helps
Black Hydra
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 04:07
Thanks, Scraggle! I will try that out.

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