Is there a way to check for the presence of an ini file to trigger events? I've got my games options set up to save to an ini and load upon changes/starting the game. What im trying to do is, set the sound effects and volume levels to 50% each upon initial play, then after the player adjusts the levels it saves them to the ini. The problem is, at least for what im trying to do, is that i have the title screen that deals with saving these changes set with a start of frame event that automatically sets them both to their saved ini values. Hopefully that makes sense lol. Realistically, i could just set them both to be at 50% each and just have the players adjust them each time, but i'd like that all to be nice and neat with the ini.
Events based on checking if .ini file is present?
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One way you could do it would be to use the File object to check if the ini file exists in whichever directory you specify.
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In the above example, the File object checks to see if the file "example.ini" exists in the 'C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\FusionExample' directory.
If the file exists, have it load the volume data from the ini file. If it doesn't exist, then have it go with default volume levels.
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Another way to do it is check a value in the ini file on startup. If the ini object can't find a value, it will give you a "0" as the value with a couple of events, so something like
Start of frame
- If value "HasRun" in 'somefile.ini = 1'
-- then load the volume data from the ini fileStart of frame
- If value "HasRun" in 'somefile.ini = 0'
-- then set the value of "HasRun" to 1
-- use the default audio volume -
Yes, absolutely. The INI is pretty deep at what all it can do. The File object is what you're looking for to verify existence of a file.
A little more on what the INI can do... I built a dialog text blitting system that performs certain actions based on special characters before the dialog is blitted. I used the Left and Len functions in the expression editor to extract these from the ini and perform a function based on what's there. For example, a number in the INI before the dialog is to automatically designate the name of the character speaking. An asterisk before a number in my INI is a delay in milliseconds. Not sure how far you can go with this in Fusion, but there's definitely potential for this.
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Thanks for all the input folks, I REALLY appreciate it! Looks like im going to try out the File Object now lol
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Another way to do it is check a value in the ini file on startup. If the ini object can't find a value, it will give you a "0" as the value with a couple of events, so something like
Start of frame
- If value "HasRun" in 'somefile.ini = 1'
-- then load the volume data from the ini fileStart of frame
- If value "HasRun" in 'somefile.ini = 0'
-- then set the value of "HasRun" to 1
-- use the default audio volumeThanks marbenx , that method worked out perfectly!!
for anyone that has troubles with the same thing, reference this ^^^^, just make sure you add "Compare between two general values" line after the Start of Frame event. Thanks again!
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