----------------------------------- 7h3Q Thu May 05, 2005 4:31 pm Creating save games ----------------------------------- i'm wondering if its possible to create a save/load menu in turing, for a game, that would export all the variables and their values, and later recall them upon the users request. if this is possible can anyone make a tutorial on this?? would really appreciate it. i did search the turing forums, but kinda got lazy after clicking about five pages of links to posts. the tutorials i read delt with importing and exporting text, which isnt what i wish to do ----------------------------------- Paul Thu May 05, 2005 6:47 pm Re: Creating save games ----------------------------------- that would export all the variables and their values, and later recall them upon the users request. the tutorials i read delt with importing and exporting text, which isnt what i wish to do Wouldn't exporting the variable values into a text file work? if you designed a correct input/output system for it. Like if you wanted to save a um... tic tac toe game, where x's are marked with x's and o's are marked with o's and blanks are marked with b, then you would export a text file based on the x and o positions that looks like: xbo obb xob or something like that when you load this, just load the X's and O's onto the board using the values on the text file? ----------------------------------- 7h3Q Thu May 05, 2005 7:13 pm thanks ----------------------------------- havent thought of that, will have to play with those tutorials a little more to see what i can figure out. i'm pretty sure i'll be posting here with more questions as i play around with the code ----------------------------------- syntax0r Thu May 05, 2005 7:20 pm ----------------------------------- There are many SAVE/LOAD tutorials on this site, which one is the best for 7h3Q's problem, as I have the same problem? ----------------------------------- jamonathin Thu May 05, 2005 7:36 pm ----------------------------------- Read through this topic, and configure it to your own likings. http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=7499 ----------------------------------- Token Thu May 05, 2005 7:40 pm ----------------------------------- i'd have to agree with paul on that, with the games that i've made i always just save a picture of the screen to file, and take all the variables neccisary and output them to a text file, i then later recall all of them and do somthing like this %%open file and stuff get :stream, data data := x ----------------------------------- syntax0r Thu May 05, 2005 9:37 pm ----------------------------------- Forgive my : lazyness, stupidness or ignorance, but I find those tutorials to be vague. Like I said, I'm not trying to be rude! Don't get the wrong impression, I'm just puzzled with what's happening with all these unknown syntaxs. Could someone demonstrate how I could save this variable var pleaseSaveMe : string var choice : int put " 1 - NEW ........... 2 - LOAD" get choice case choice of label 1: put "enter the string value u wish to store into var pleaseSaveMe: ".. get pleaseSaveMe put pleaseSaveMe, " was saved. Now u can load it" label: %%%%load var pleaseSaveMe : string and the output w/e was specificed into file end case into whatever needed file, so that program will load the value user specified value (w/e the user types is stored in the var pleaseSaveMe ) again, outputting w/e was said upon selecting the load option EDIT: Found something that answers my question. Had to scan, but it was worth it. Still I don't know what the program does, I just intepreted it the best i could proc save var stremout : int %Does not need to be set var pathName : string := "save.sav" %The name of the file to be saved var character_name : string get character_name %The variable to be saved open : stremout, pathName, write write : stremout, character_name close : stremout end save proc load var character_name : string var stremin : int %Does not need to be set var pathName : string := "save.sav" %The name of the file to be loaded open : stremin, pathName, read read : stremin, character_name close : stremin put character_name end load got it from http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=502 ----------------------------------- 7h3Q Thu May 05, 2005 11:46 pm kool ----------------------------------- thanks for the help guys, i've been toggling between turing and cs for the past "few" hours. finally got the save/load script working somewhat, still not exactly what i want it to be, but i'm getting their... i hope. really appreciate the help ----------------------------------- jamonathin Fri May 06, 2005 12:11 pm ----------------------------------- Ill tell you line by line what everthing is, in lamin terms. proc save %Just a name for a proc var stremout : int %Just a variable name var pathName : string := "save.sav" %The name of the file to be saved var character_name : string %Just a variable name get character_name %The variable to be saved - getting input from user open : stremout, pathName, write %using the output variable, telling it to open up "save.sav", then telling it, it's going to use it to write in it write : stremout, character_name %It is now writing on it close : stremout %Closing that file up end save proc load var character_name : string %just a variable name var stremin : int %Just a variable name var pathName : string := "save.sav" %Same as above open : stremin, pathName, read %Using streamin to open "save.sav", and telling teh program we're just going to read it read : stremin, character_name %So then we read it and save character_name to the data close : stremin %Then we close it put character_name %displaying the data end load I hope this helps. ----------------------------------- 7h3Q Fri May 06, 2005 2:52 pm excellent ----------------------------------- excellent, thanks for the line by line explanation. my main problem was that i was not understanding the code, so i wasnt sure what to do exactly. i find it easy (as we all should) to copy something, say it works, but not comprehend one line of it. thanks again, now i comprehend all the variables and what the purpose they server the help is truly appreciated ----------------------------------- MysticVegeta Tue May 10, 2005 6:59 am ----------------------------------- oo I think that you can open the saved game files with any text editor and it to the last level without trying. o_O Even with a different extension, you can stil use notepad to open it ----------------------------------- Token Tue May 10, 2005 4:58 pm ----------------------------------- well you could use some sort of simple enctyption, you take the ascii value of the charecter, preform some math on it, and then add it to the file, and when u read the file you reverse the math function and convert it back to a string