----------------------------------- chipanpriest Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:43 pm Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- What is it you are trying to achieve? Hey guys. I'm making a game that involves a score and a highscore. I have the score and highscore when you play the game. I'm still confused about how to save your highscore to the user's hard drive and be able to recover it again when the user starts the program again. What is the problem you are having? I'm having troubles understanding all this "open :, get :, put :, etc" Describe what you have tried to solve this problem I've searched the web and seen people try to explain this but I'm a little bit new at Turing and I don't understand all the advanced things in Turing so if anyone could explain this simply I would appreciate it. Please specify what version of Turing you are using ----------------------------------- Dreadnought Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:54 pm Re: Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- Perhaps this tutorial will help with your problem. http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=12972 Hope it helps. ----------------------------------- mirhagk Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:54 pm RE:Saving highscore onto hard drive (I\'ve looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- So the first thing you need to do is open up the file, you use open to do that such as the following var stream:int open: stream, "highscores.txt", get, put That will give you an integer value that corresponds to an internal value that Turing uses to know which file you're talking about. You use this whenever you do anything with this file. The get and put just go on the end, and you can just use one or the other if your just getting or putting, It;s just to tell the file how you want to use it. So basically all you need to do know is put or get from the file pretty much just like you would window only you use : stream, after the put or get like the following var msg:string put: stream, "Hello there" get: stream, msg ----------------------------------- programmer1337 Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:09 pm Re: Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- ill give you an example of a top 3 highscore thingy i made[code]var hScore1, hScore2, hScore3 : int var enterYN : string put "Please enter y / n if you want to view highscores" get enterYN if enterYN = "y" then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", get, mod get : scoresFile, hScore1 get : scoresFile, hScore2 get : scoresFile, hScore3 close : scoresFile if accumulator < hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, accumulator put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, hScore2 elsif accumulator < hScore2 and accumulator > hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, accumulator put : scoresFile, hScore2 elsif accumulator < hScore3 and accumulator > hScore2 and accumulator > hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, hScore2 put : scoresFile, accumulator end if end if put "1. ", hScore1 put "2. ",hScore2 put "3. ",hScore3[/code] ----------------------------------- ttm Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:10 pm Re: Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- Hi there; I wrote a super handy highscore module which I use in all my games. You might want to use it as an example or try to figure out how it works. [code] /* * highscore * * A module that keeps track of your highscores * even after you close your program * * -It automatically keeps only the top 10 * -To add an entry, do highscore.add ("name", 999) * -To get the entry at location n, (from 1 to 10), do * highscore.getname (n) * -To get the score at location n, (from 1 to 10), do * highscore.getscore (n) * -The highscores are recorded in file "highscores.dat" * Copyright (C) 2011 by Tony Zou Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ module highscore export add, getname, getscore type _hsentry : record name : string score : int end record var _highscores : array 1 .. 10 of _hsentry var _highscorefs : int open : _highscorefs, "highscores.dat", read, write, mod, seek if (eof (_highscorefs)) then for i : 1 .. 10 _highscores (i).name := "-- Empty --" _highscores (i).score := 0 end for write : _highscorefs, _highscores else read : _highscorefs, _highscores end if proc _rebalance var curscore : _hsentry var k : int var tmp : _hsentry for i : 2 .. 10 curscore := _highscores (i) k := i loop k -= 1 exit when k = 0 | _highscores (k).score > curscore.score _highscores (k + 1) := _highscores (k) end loop _highscores (k + 1) := curscore end for end _rebalance proc add (name : string, score : int) if (_highscores(10).score > score) then return end if _highscores (10).name := name _highscores (10).score := score _rebalance seek :_highscorefs, 0 write : _highscorefs, _highscores end add fcn getname (ind : int) : string result _highscores (ind).name end getname fcn getscore (ind : int) : int result _highscores (ind).score end getscore end highscore [/code] An example of how to use it would be [code] loop var name : string var score : int put "What is your name? " .. get name : * put "What is your score? " .. get score highscore.add (name, score) put "" put "---- Highscores ----" for i : 1 .. 10 put highscore.getname (i), " ", highscore.getscore (i) end for put "" end loop [/code] This uses the file input and output methods mentioned previously, but the only thing that might be a bit complicated is the _rebalance procedure, which sorts the highscore list using insertation sort. You can read about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort. ----------------------------------- ttm Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:11 pm Re: Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- Oops just noticed programmer1337's post. Sorry mybad. ----------------------------------- programmer1337 Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:12 pm Re: Saving highscore onto hard drive (I've looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- this is much simpler then ^ and you would prolly get it [code]var hScore1, hScore2, hScore3 : int var enterYN : string put "Please enter y / n if you want to view highscores" get enterYN if enterYN = "y" then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", get, mod get : scoresFile, hScore1 get : scoresFile, hScore2 get : scoresFile, hScore3 close : scoresFile if accumulator < hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, accumulator put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, hScore2 elsif accumulator < hScore2 and accumulator > hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, accumulator put : scoresFile, hScore2 elsif accumulator < hScore3 and accumulator > hScore2 and accumulator > hScore1 then open : scoresFile, "High Scores.txt", put, mod put : scoresFile, hScore1 put : scoresFile, hScore2 put : scoresFile, accumulator end if end if put "1. ", hScore1 put "2. ",hScore2 put "3. ",hScore3[/code] ----------------------------------- chipanpriest Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:48 pm RE:Saving highscore onto hard drive (I\'ve looked at other "help" attemts but im still really confused) ----------------------------------- haha thanks guys i got it to wrk after the mirhagk person replied but thanks anyways ;D