Saving, PLEASE HELP!!!

Or you can save the data in a binary file. Each character could have it's variables in a UDT.

Code:

---

' Type for storing character's data
Public Type Character_Values
        cvLife As Integer
        cvHealth As Integer
        cvName As String
        ' etc., etc.
End Type
' Array of characters
Public udtChar() As Character_Values


Public Sub SaveGame()
' Save a game to a file

Dim ff As Integer, lNum As Long
ff = FreeFile

Open App.Path & "\game.dat" For Binary As #ff
        ' How many characters are there?
        lNum = UBound(udtChar)
        Put #ff, , lNum
        ' Save data
        Put #ff, , udtChar()
Close #ff
End Sub

Public Sub LoadGame()
' Load a game from a file

Dim ff As Integer, lNum As Long
ff = FreeFile

Open App.Path & "\game.dat" For Binary As #ff
        ' # of chars...
        Get #ff, , lNum
        ' Resize arrary and load data
        Redim udtChar(lNum)
        Get #ff, , udtChar()
Close #ff
End Sub

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If you saved your file like:

VB Code:

Open "C:\Game\Save1.sav" For Binary As #1
 
Put #1,,Character1Life 'NOTE: That's 2 commas (,) I used!!!
Put #1,,Character1Name
Put #1,,Character1Class
 
'...
 
Close #1

...you could load it like this:

VB Code:

Open "C:\Game\Save1.sav" For Binary As #1
 
Get #1,,Character1Life
Get #1,,Character1Name
Get #1,,Character1Class
 
'...
 
Close #1

Get it? :)

I would go for the UDT code, it's much easier to change what variables are stored in the file (read: add one line of code without updating the LoadGame and SaveGame functions every time)...

This question was asked a lot, so I created this tutorial: UDT's and Binary File Access, it might be of some use to you...

HEy if I got you right meatlguy than the only right thing would be a textfile because there you could load only one line, but I think the binary way with loading all the data Jotaf showed is the best, just use UDTs so you don'T have to write the same crap 100000 times.

Yeah, well, he has only 3 posts so he's [probably] a begginer in VB. I tried to keep it as simple as possible :)

I was an experienced programmer by the time I had 3 posts here :rolleyes: :p (yes, I did have a life before this forum :D)

Well me too, hehe, I almost had forgotten that :)

But anyways, I do recommend the UDT technique. Even if you've never saved something to files before, it's not very difficult to use this technique (it might even be easier than manual loading/saving every variable, and hey, there's always my tutorial and this forum :)) and it's a lot more organized way of coding...