Text saving

[Marcem]

How do I get things like position in a text file? Thanks!

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[Randy]

Writing to files

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%file = new FileObject(); // Create a file object
%file.openForWrite("Add-Ons/file.txt"); // Open a file, if it exists, clear it. If it doesn't exist, create it.
%file.writeLine("This is the first line."); // write some stuff into the file
%file.writeLine("...");
%file.writeLine("Line 3");
%file.close(); // close the file
%file.delete(); // delete the file object
Reading from files

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%file = new FileObject(); // Create a file object
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/file.txt"); // Open a file to read
while(!%file.isEOF()){ // loop until we have reached the end of the file
%line = %file.readLine();
%lines++;
echo("Line ", %lines, ": ", %line);
}
%file.close(); // close the file
%file.delete(); // delete the file object
Appending to files (Adding lines to the end without removing the original contents)

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%file = new FileObject(); // Create a file object
%file.openForAppend("Add-Ons/file.txt"); // Open the desired file, without clearing it beforehand
%file.writeLine("This line will be added onto the end"); // add some stuff to the end of the file
%file.writeLine("and another line");
%file.close(); // close the file
%file.delete(); // delete the file object
Useless Example

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function savePositions(){
%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForAppend("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
for(%i=0;%i<ClientGroup.getCount;%i++){
%cl = ClientGroup.getObject(%i);
if(!isObject(%client.player))
continue;
%id = %cl.bl_id;
%name = %cl.name;
%position = %client.player.getPosition();
%file.writeLine(%id TAB %name TAB %position);
}
%file.close();
%file.delete();
}

[Marcem]

Now how do i get it to read the BL_ID of someone? I know, I suck at coding.

[Randy]

Here's how you would load the information from the file made in the example:

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%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
while(!%file.isEOF()){
%line = %file.readLine();
%id = getField(%line, 0);
%name = getField(%line, 1);
%position = getField(%line, 2);
echo(%name, " (ID: ", %id, ") was at ", %position);
}
%file.close();
%file.delete();

[Marcem]

Here's how you would load the information from the file made in the example:

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%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
while(!%file.isEOF()){
%line = %file.readLine();
%id = getField(%line, 0);
%name = getField(%line, 1);
%position = getField(%line, 2);
echo(%name, " (ID: ", %id, ") was at ", %position);
}
%file.close();
%file.delete();

Now what would I have to do to  the code to make the gameconnection spawn there on the first spawn?

[MrPickle]

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package loadPosition{

function GameConnection::SpawnPlayer(%this){
Parent::SpawnPlayer(%this);
if(!%this.firstSpawn){
   %this.player.schedule(1000,setTransform,loadPosition(%this));
   %this.firstSpawn = 1;
   }
}

function loadPosition(%client){
   %file = new FileObject();
   %file.openForRead("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
   while(!%file.isEOF()){
      %line = %file.readLine();
      %id = getField(%line, 0);
      %name = getField(%line, 1);
      %position = getField(%line, 2);
         if(%client.bl_id $= %id)
            return %position
      }
%file.close();
%file.delete();
}

};
activatePackage(loadPosition);

I'm not sure about the schedule.

[Randy]

A few things changed/added:

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package loadPosition{
function GameConnection::SpawnPlayer(%this){
Parent::SpawnPlayer(%this);
if(!%this.firstSpawn){
%position = loadPosition(%this.bl_id);
if(%position !$= ""){
%this.player.setTransform(%position, getWords(%this.player.getTransform, 3, 6));
bottomPrint(%this, "Your position has been loaded", 2, 2);
}
%this.firstSpawn = 1;
}
}

function GameConnection::OnClientLeaveGame(%this){
if(!isObject(%this.player)){
Parent::OnClientLeaveGame(%this);
return;
}
%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
while(!%file.isEOF()){
%line = %file.readLine();
%id = getField(%line, 0);
if(%id == %this.bl_id){
%found = 1;
break;
}
}
%file.close();
if(!%found){
%file.openForAppend("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
%file.writeLine(%this.bl_id TAB %this.player.getPosition());
%file.close();
%file.delete();
}
Parent::OnClientLeaveGame(%this);
}

function loadPosition(%bl_id){
%file = new FileObject();
%file.openForRead("Add-Ons/positions.txt");
while(!%file.isEOF()){
%line = %file.readLine();
%id = getField(%line, 0);
%position = ;
if(%bl_id == %id){
%file.close();
%file.delete();
return getField(%line, 2);
}
}
}
};
activatePackage(loadPosition);
It may be better to save positions into variables and export them in this situation, but that's how you would do it with files anyway.

[Marcem]

Thanks guys! But can't you use gameconnection::onentergame? I believe that is when the client spawns because it is where the RTB game.cs says: "%name has spawned."

[Randy]

I'm not sure about the functions, but I saw Pickle had used that one, and in my hide names script I also used GameConnection::SpawnPlayer, so I assumed it would be okay.