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by Nelson A. K. Gonsalves · in Torque Game Engine · 10/02/2001 (12:47 pm) · 4 replies

How would I go about saving all the player vars and info to a file using the script language?
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Torque Owner Tim Gift
#1
10/03/2001 (10:37 am)
There is a file object... (engine/core/fileObject.cc) I haven't used this before, but looking at the C++ code it seems like it would work something like this:
$file = new FileObject();
$file.openForWrite("mod/filename");
$file.writeLine($player.name);
$file.close();
$file.delete();
There are also openForRead,openForAppend, readLine and isEof methods.

Torque Owner Tim "Zear" Hammock
#2
10/03/2001 (12:14 pm)
You also might look into export()

Torque Owner Matthew Shapiro
#3
10/03/2001 (1:36 pm)
out of curiosity if the program crashes and you dont' use $file.close(); does the data stay saved or is it gone?

Torque Owner Tim Gift
#4
10/04/2001 (8:52 pm)
Most of the data is probably cached in the filestream and not flushed, you'd probably lose some of it. The input logging, which is crash proof (somewhat), manually flushes the stream after every write to make sure the OS write's it out. There is currently no facility for this on the FileObject, something you could add though :)