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Doctor EVIIIIIL

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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 19:06

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I cant seem to figure out how to save and display the player's name and score. I want to make a high scores section in my game where it displays top names and scores in order from 1 to 10.
Here's my game if you can fix it or just tell me what i need that would be great.

REZA

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LBFN

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Posted: 8th Nov 2013 05:02

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Doctor EVIIIIIL,

Welcome to the TGC forum.

Since you are indeed new, I am hesitant to download your file onto my comp to check it out. No offense, but since I don't know you, you could be a spammer/hacker that gets their jollies on messing up someone else's comp (not saying that you are, but you could be). So maybe you could repost, clicking the CODE button, pasting your code and clicking the CODE button again to show us what you have so far. Then I would be glad to take a look at it.

So many games to code.....so little time.

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Rudolpho

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Posted: 8th Nov 2013 09:23 Edited at: 8th Nov 2013 09:23

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function SaveScore(playerName as string, score as dword)
    if file exist("highscore.dat") then delete file "highscore.dat"
    fileId = 1 ` Set to a free file Id if you already have a file 1 open
    open to read fileId, "highscore.dat"
    write string fileId, playerScore
    write long   fileId, score
    close file fileId
endfunction

function LoadScore()
    rem Assumes TopScore and TopPlayerName are globals. You can of course do this in other ways too.
    if file exist("highscore.dat")
        fileId = 1
        open to read fileId, "highscore.dat"
        rem The syntax is quite different here; the built-in file reading functions
        rem are about the only ones in DBPro that use references when returning data
        rem instead of returning copies.
        read string fileId, TopPlayerName
        read long   fileId, TopScore
        close datafile
    else
        rem No nighscore file exists; set generic values
        TopPlayerName = "N/A"
        TopScore      = 0
    endif
endfunction

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function SaveScore(playerName as string, score as dword)
    if file exist("highscore.dat") then delete file "highscore.dat"
    fileId = 1 ` Set to a free file Id if you already have a file 1 open
    open to read fileId, "highscore.dat"
    write string fileId, playerScore
    write long   fileId, score
    close file fileId
endfunction

function LoadScore()
    rem Assumes TopScore and TopPlayerName are globals. You can of course do this in other ways too.
    if file exist("highscore.dat")
        fileId = 1
        open to read fileId, "highscore.dat"
        rem The syntax is quite different here; the built-in file reading functions
        rem are about the only ones in DBPro that use references when returning data
        rem instead of returning copies.
        read string fileId, TopPlayerName
        read long   fileId, TopScore
        close datafile
    else
        rem No nighscore file exists; set generic values
        TopPlayerName = "N/A"
        TopScore      = 0
    endif
endfunction