How do you Save a game and rerun it ??

[livingheaven]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
<to able to load a saved game >


What is the problem you are having?
<Doesnt know and understand how to load a saved game >



Please specify what version of Turing you are using
<Newest>

Can some one explan how to load a saved game in turing ?

Any help would be great.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Look at file input/output. That's what I used.

[livingheaven]

Looking at it right now, but they use seek and tell, but i dont know what to do after you get the saved information...

is it something like

var stream : int
var file : string
open :stream, "text.txt" seek
seek :stream, file

then im stuck ..... =.=

[USEC_OFFICER]

Bam

Turing:

var file, chips : int var s : string open : file, "Save1.txt", get get : file, s :* get : file, chips put s put chips close : file

That's what I used.

[chrisbrown]

Use seek and tell only when you need to read from a specific location in the file. Look up read and write instead, they are a little more intuitive.

Saving:

Turing:

var textToSave : string := "This can be almost anything; a number, a string, or a record, at the very least." var stream : int var file : string := "text.txt" open : stream, file, write write : stream, textToSave close : stream

Loading:

Turing:

var textToGet : string var stream : int var file : string := "text.txt" open : stream, file, read read: stream, textToGet close : stream

I should point out this is (basically) for saving variables. If you want to save text that is human-readable, use put and get.

[livingheaven]

oh . ok i'll give it a try

[livingheaven]

wait your getting the text as string, but how are you going to reuse that in a game ????


im confused

[chrisbrown]

The idea is that you can replace that string with some other data type. It would work just as well if you used ints or reals or something else.

code:

var name : string var score : int var aRandomArray : array 1 .. 10 of real var stream : int var file : string := "text.txt" proc save     open : stream, file, write     write : stream, name     write : stream, score     write : stream, aRandomArray     close : stream end save proc load     open : stream, file, read     read : stream, name     read : stream, score     read : stream, aRandomArray     close : stream end load % Do this first name := "PlayerName" score := 5000 for i : 1 .. 10     aRandomArray (i) := i end for save %%%%%%%%%%%%% % Then stop, remove the "Do this first section", uncomment the line below, and restart % load put name put score for i : 1 .. 10     put aRandomArray (i) end for

Follow the instructions. For comparison, after you're done, comment out "load" again, and see what happens.

[livingheaven]

thx

[livingheaven]

then how do u do auto save ?

is it like this


loop
if quit = true then
save
exit
end if
end loop

[chrisbrown]

Exactly. Note that if you close the program by any way other than the method that set quit to true (i.e. Turing's stop buttton or the window's "X" button) it won't save. Sorry if that's obvious to you; I've just had to help others with that problem.

Also, (again, sorry if obvious) quit is a reserved keyword, you'll need to use a different variable name.

[livingheaven]

oh ok , lol

i'll keep that in mind
thx for helping me out
+ bits

[livingheaven]

for the close button, cant i just locate with
Mouse.Where (x,y,mb )
and then
if mb = 1 and it's in the red zone of the "x" then
save
exit
end if
?

[copthesaint]

Just want to send this out there too, the same idea in turing for saving and loading is almost the exact thing for using turing network class, so if anyone is trying to make an online game, get good at this first!

Now for what your doing, You may also want to make a system so that users cannot edit your program easily, Currently for my huge project I'm doing, and funny I saw this, I am making my classes for opening and closeing files. So anywho, make a system so that for example 1the number a9f could equal 1 and 43d could equal a. The better the system, the harder for a gamer to cheat.

[chrisbrown]

You could save when the mouse hovers over it, but as soon as you click it, execution halts, so Mouse.Where would never capture mb=1.