Saving / Loading Files

[recneps]

Question about saving/loading to/from files. can the filename be anything? like .file or .mai (©Mazer 2004 ) and ina paint prog made in turing (or just a screenshot of the screen...) can you save pic files?

[Tony]

extensions are just used by filesystem to assosiate file with an application to which it belongs. You can name your file whatever you want.

and yes, you can save area of your exectuion window as a screenshot. It's Pic.something... not sure

[recneps]

cool, thanks, so mazer really can make .mai o.O lol

[DanShadow]

ok...before asking us, at least try to check the help ON please. So you want to "save" a "pic"...search in help: "Pic.Save"..pumps you up with this:
Loading:

code:

var mypic:int:=Pic.FileNew("mypic.bmp") var x,y:int:=200 Pic.Draw(mypic,x,y,picMerge)

Saving:

code:

% Saves a piccture as "mypic.bmp" var picID: int var x, y : int Draw.FillBox (50, 50, 150, 150, red) Draw.FillStar (50, 50, 150, 150, green) Draw.FillOval (100, 100, 50, 50, blue) picID := Pic.New (50, 50, 150, 150) Pic.Save (picID, "mypic.bmp") Pic.Free (picID)

See...right out of the help file.

[recneps]

thanks, lol i dont even know how to save/load files, i was just wondering if you could use any extension, etc since i might make hangman or something that has all the words in a file, but noone will know they;re there because its like .jfsdhglsku lol

[DanShadow]

I dont qu ite understand what your say ing, but you seem to be asking how to load text files or something, so here:
Loading:

code:

var database,highscores:int open:datafile,filename:get get:datafile,highscores highscores:=highscores close:datafile put "High Score: ",highscores

Saving:

code:

var datafile,highscores:int open:datafile,filename:put put:datafile,highscores close:datafile

Excuse me if there is a couple syntax errors...but you should get the points. Hope this helps.

[recneps]

i was saying like i had 5 variables and i wanted to know if i could choose the extension of the file they were saved as, like save to (whatever the code is) files.rec rather than a .txt or .dat, etc, and the answer was yes