Save function behaving oddly...

I've searched these forums Google, the tutorials, TDN, and the references throughly and cant seem to find decent coverage on this problem - maybe someone can help me out.

I am using the most recent version of Torque Game Builder.

I am trying to get my game to save and load from a file, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I have an object stored to a global variable called $controller that stores some of the key pieces of data needed for the game, I use the following script to save the game:

function saveGame(%saveName)
{
   if (checkDatablock(%saveName) == true)
      {
         $controller.saveName = %saveName;
      }
   %savefilepath = "./" @ $controller.saveName @ ".cs";
   $controller.save(%savefilepath);
   echo("Game Saved as: " @ %savefilepath);
}

The resulting file stores a whole bunch of data about physics and what not, but what I really care about are the last 5 lines. BGM, bgm override, camPosition, and so forth. This is what the save file looks like:

//--- OBJECT WRITE BEGIN ---
new t2dSceneObject() {
   Enabled = "1";
   canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
   useMouseEvents = "0";
   Paused = "0";
   Visible = "1";
   Lifetime = "0";
   Position = "0.000 0.000";
   size = "10.000 10.000";
   Rotation = "0";
   AutoRotation = "0";
   FlipX = "0";
   FlipY = "0";
   SortPoint = "0.000 0.000";
   Layer = "0";
   GraphGroup = "0";
   MountRotation = "0";
   AutoMountRotation = "0";
   WorldLimitMode = "OFF";
   WorldLimitMin = "0.000 0.000";
   WorldLimitMax = "0.000 0.000";
   WorldLimitCallback = "0";
   CollisionActiveSend = "0";
   CollisionActiveReceive = "0";
   CollisionPhysicsSend = "1";
   CollisionPhysicsReceive = "1";
   CollisionGroups = "-1";
   CollisionLayers = "-1";
   CollisionCallback = "0";
   CollisionPolyScale = "1.000 1.000";
   CollisionCircleScale = "1";
   CollisionMaxIterations = "3";
   CollisionDetectionMode = "POLYGON";
   CollisionResponseMode = "CLAMP";
   CollisionCircleSuperscribed = "1";
   CollisionPolyList = "-1.000 -1.000 1.000 -1.000 1.000 1.000 -1.000 1.000";
   BlendingEnabled = "1";
   SrcBlendFactor = "SRC_ALPHA";
   DstBlendFactor = "ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA";
   BlendColor = "1 1 1 1";
   ConstantForce = "0.000 0.000";
   ConstantForceGravitic = "0";
   ForceScale = "1";
   Immovable = "0";
   ForwardOnly = "0";
   AutoMassInertia = "1";
   Density = "0.01";
   Friction = "0.3";
   Restitution = "1";
   damping = "0";
   LinearVelocity = "0.000 0.000";
   AngularVelocity = "0";
   MinLinearVelocity = "0";
   MaxLinearVelocity = "10000";
   MinAngularVelocity = "0";
   MaxAngularVelocity = "10000";
      BGM = "-2147483646";
      bgmOverride = "0";
      camPosition = "2";
      saveName = "defaultSave";
      vocalOverride = "0";
};
//--- OBJECT WRITE END ---

Then it loads the save file using this script:

function loadGame(%saveName)
{
   if (checkDatablock(%saveName) == true)
      {
         $controller.saveName = %saveName;
      }
      %loadfilepath = "./" @ "defaultSave" @ ".cs";
      echo("Loading file: " @ expandFilename(%loadfilepath));
      exec(%loadfilepath);
      echo("Loaded game: " @ %savefilepath);
      
}

The problem is, when the script executes to load the game, it doesn't recognize the BGM (which should be a reference to an audio datablock), and it doesn't recognize any of the data in that load file. Now I have a feeling that the problem is being caused partially by the fact that there is no object name assigned in the save file, when it should be assigned to $controller. I'm not sure how to get it to do that.

Also, I'm guessing I incorrectly saved the BGM (audio datablock), do I have to save it as a string or something?

The game reads the camPosition as: b#p3 (where the p is actually the backwards "paragraph" p. Though I'm guessing that it doesn't actually read it from the $controller object, because the object never really gets assigned.



So... I have two questions:

1. What am I doing wrong here? How can I make it so I can save variables, objects, and datablocks to a file and then reload them without these weird errors and,

2. Is there any way I could do a similar operation by writing to and reading from a text file my self? (I.e. write "BGM" and then later "read line, BGM" - which would then be assigned a value.


Thank you for your time.