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Newcomers DBPro Corner / help with saving a highscore

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army
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 22:46
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Im making my first game at the moment and Im trying to find a way to save the highscore for the next time it is played. I have it so that it refreshes ingame but once I shut it down it goes back to default setting. I have tried creating a separate file to save the highscore but im not really sure what im doing there and so it didnt work. Can anyone help, thanks.
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IanM
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Posted: 2nd Feb 2004 23:35
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Try something like this, substituting your own highscore variable



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GameMaker Jason
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 00:04
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how do you create the .dat file?

just code
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IanM
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 00:12 Edited at: 3rd Feb 2004 00:12
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The code will create it if it doesn't already exist.

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army
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 13:27
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thanks Ian it worked perfectly.
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IanM
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Of course it did ... I wrote it

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 3rd Feb 2004 19:19
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now now ian - no one should trust their ciode that much, especially when using DBPro(DBPro has more bugs in it than a dodgy holiday camp)

please do not think im taking the p*ss out of the TGC software or out of the moderators, because i like it here and i dont want to get blocked

Flick that switch...*BANG*...Not that one!
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GameMaker Jason
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how many highscore will this hold and how do you get the highscoreto appear in a message box?

just code
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IanM
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It currently only holds one. If you want more then you will need to modify it to use an array.

Message box? Write one. This could be something as simple as using the BOX/LINE commands to draw your box, and then displaying the score using the TEXT command

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