ini help

[Tisnart]

can someone help me out?
I have used the ini object to save some info in my game and i have used [color:#3366FF]Appdrive$+Appdir$+"mygame.ini"[/color] as the file name.
Problem is when I build the game it will not save any information and I dont know why?
( Im using Vista if that matters)

[Zabooza]

just do application path, that is better than Appdrive$+Appdir$

[nivram]

apppath$+"mygame.ini"

What this does is save the INI into the folder where your game is saved.

Marv

[DavidN]

I think that Vista may be preventing the creation of the file, particularly if it's in the Program Files folder. I think from memory that the commonly agreed on place to store saves on Vista is in the user's Application Data folder.

[nivram]

emmm...I am using Vista Basic, and never run into the problem saving and loading with apppath$ on any storage object. Did I miss something in this post? Must be my brain leakage then.

Marv

[Jax]

Perhaps you don't use Vista?

The polite place to put files is in the the Documents and Settings folder thing (well some subfolder whose name I have forgotten). Ini++ has some properties to make this a bit easier.

[Paul_Boland]

I think that Vista may be preventing the creation of the file, particularly if it's in the Program Files folder. I think from memory that the commonly agreed on place to store saves on Vista is in the user's Application Data folder.

I agree. Is your program in the Program Files folder? If so, that's the problem, you need to put it somewhere else.

[Tisnart]

thanx for all the comments!
Although i may be using vista to make my game I do want the game to be played on other os systems too. So I gather the best way to do this is either apppath$+"mygame.ini" or perhaps in the Windows Dir.

[nivram]

Don't put the INI in the Windows folder. Use apppath$ to put it in the game folder.

Marv

[Tisnart]

I tried that but for some odd reason the game wont save to the file???? the only time it works is when i use the windows folder or any drive letter other than c:\ ( i have 3 available drives) eg: e:\mygame.ini
I know i'm doing it right I just dont know why it wont work!!!!