Saving/loading in T2D example

Ok, so here is a start over on how to save and load files. This has been more thought out then the last one. That one was thrown together and not so clear.

First thing we are going to do is create a new file and name it savetry.cs and save it in the client folder.Then we are going to add the following 3 functions to it:

function MakeValues()
{
%obj = new ScriptObject(player);
%obj.Something=2;
%obj.somethingelse=4;
player.save("./T2D/client/something.cs");

}

function PrintValues()
{
echo(player.Something);
echo(player.Somethingelse);
}

function SaveNewvalues()
{
player.save("./T2D/client/something.cs");
}

The function makevalues() willl make a new scriptobject named player. Then it will assign 2 and 4 to a couple of variables that I created for it.

The function PrintValues() will just do a little echo to verify that those are infact asigned values
.
The function Savenewvalues() will save new values that we will take care of later.

The first thing we are going to do is open up client .cs in the T2D/client folder. Then we are going to execute something.cs and the not yet existing something.cs file. like this:

exec("./datablocks.cs");
	exec("./savetry.cs");
	exec("./something.cs");

I added it right after datablocks.cs file for the sake of keeping it easy. Even though something.cs doesn't exist yet, it will the next time we run the program so I just added it now.

Now open your copy of T2D.exe. In the console window type:

MakeValues();

Like I said above, this will create a object and assign some stuff to it. Then enter the following code on the console window.

PrintValues();

This will verify by printing 2 and 4

Great, now we are rolling.

Now in the console window type:

player.something=4;

Then

player.somethingelse=8;

Ok cool, so now lets check to see if they stick. In the console window type:

PrintValues();

This will show you that 4 and 8 have been asigned correctly.

Ok now in the console window type:

SaveNewvalues();

This is going to save our new object and variables to a file that we will check in a minute. Now lets close T2D for a sec.

Ok, if you go open /T2D/client/something.cs with notepad or whatever, you should see that the values are 4 and 8.

Great! Now let's see if they saved! Open T2D again. Remember that we put the exec() statement for our at the time non-existent somthing.cs file. Well now that it exists it should read fine.

Also remember that we did not create player anywhere in code. So it is getting it's information straight from something.cs

Ok now open the console window and type:

PrintValues();

it should now say 4 and 8!

That's one way we figure out how to load saved values. Hope it helps