Creating an in-game Journal using GuiMessageVectorCtrl

Quote: /// Derived classes must keep this set of variables consistent if they
/// use this classes onRender. Note that this has the fairly large
/// disadvantage of requiring lots of ugly, tiny mem allocs. A rewrite
/// to a more memory friendly version might be a good idea...

%filename = "userdata/user" @ %client.guid;
export('', %filename, False); //This is how I create and clean
new MessageVector(TempVector);
TempVector.dump(%filename);
TempVector.delete(); //Files so they can be written to fresh.

ConsoleMethod( MessageVector, dump, void, 3, 4, "(string filename, string header=NULL)"
              "Dump the message vector to a file, optionally prefixing a header.")

function JournalDemo::onWake()
{

	%c = new MessageVector(journalText){};
	gmvText.attach(journalText);

	JournalDemo.readJournal("starter.fps/data/journal/journal.txt");

}

function JournalDemo::dumpFile(%this, %filename)
{

	echo("attempting to dump file from" SPC %this SPC "to" SPC %filename);//for debug
	journalText.dump(%filename);
	
}

function JournalDemo::readJournal(%this, %filename) { 

	%file = new FileObject(); 
	
	echo("attempting to open file for reading:" SPC %filename);	//for debug

	if(%file.openForRead(%filename)) 
	{ 
		echo("file opened for reading");
		while(!%file.isEOF()) 
		{ 
			%input = %file.readLine(); 
			echo(%input); //for debug
			journalText.pushFrontLine(%input,0);
		}
 	} else
	{
		echo("file NOT opened for reading");//for debug
	}
	
	%file.close();
 	%file.delete(); 
} 

function JournalDemo::writeToJournal(%this, %textToWrite)
{

	%file = new FileObject(); 

	%lineCount = 0;

	if(%file.openForRead("starter.fps/data/journal/journal.txt")) 
	{ 
		echo("scanning file to find end");//for debug
		while(!%file.isEOF()) 
		{ 
			%journalContents[%lineCount] = %file.readLine();
			%lineCount++;
			echo(%lineCount);//for debug
		}
 	} else
	{
		echo("file scan failed"); //for debug
	}
	
	%file.close();

	if(%file.openForWrite("starter.fps/data/journal/journal.txt"))
	{
		echo("file opened for writing"); //for debug
	} else
	{
		echo("file did not open for writing");//for debug
	}
	
	for(%i=0;%i<%lineCount;%i++)
	{

		%file.writeLine(%journalContents[%i]);

	}

	%file.writeLine(%textToWrite);

      %file.close(); 
      %file.delete();


}

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new GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl(JournalDemo) {
   profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   bitmap = "./journalBack.JPG";
   tile = "1";

   new GuiScrollCtrl(JournalWindow) {
     profile = "ChatScrollProfile";
     horizSizing = "right";
     vertSizing = "bottom";
     position = "26 32";
     extent = "324 300";
     minExtent = "8 2";
     visible = "1";
     willFirstRespond = "1";
     hScrollBar = "alwaysOff";
     vScrollBar = "alwaysOff";
     constantThumbHeight = "0";
     childMargin = "0 0";

     new GuiMessageVectorCtrl(gmvText) {
       profile = "ChatMessageProfile";
       horizSizing = "right";
       vertSizing = "bottom";
       position = "2 2";
       extent = "320 300";
       minExtent = "8 8";
       visible = "1";
       setFirstResponder = "0";
       lineSpacing = "0";
       lineContinuedIndex = "10";
       matchColor = "0 0 255 255";
       maxColorIndex = 9;
    };
  };
};

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