Ini++ saving

[FlinkGigitty]

At last, its time to add some saving options to my game. I have wondered about this before, but it sounded too complicated so I waited with it... And now its time. I heard earlier that the Ini++ object was the smartest. I have looked at Ini++ tutorials and examples, but since my saving works in another way, I find it very hard to connect the info I get and my project together. Im sure that once I get it to work for my own application, Ill be able to do it on my own later. But I need some help getting started.

My application is built in this way:

1) Every frame is a level. And I want to add a "Start of Frame - save game (frame number and score)".

2) I also want a maybe more tricky part, at least for me:
On the application menu, you can select "Equipment". You start with a normal gun, but you are also able to get two more later on in the game. These two guns are grayed out, but later I have a frame that says "Congratulations, you have been awarded a new gun". I have made a global event that says when Flag 1 of Ini++ is On, Gun 2 is enambled in the menu. Just to test it, I made a "user clicks H on keyboard - Set flag 1 On", and it works. But when I restart the frame, it toggles off again. All this is probably because I failed at telling the application to save. Does anyone have a solution??

[RickyRombo]

Flags don't get saved!

You can't expect an object's internal flags to be loaded externally...

[FlinkGigitty]

Eh, ok.. Then I need another idea..

[nivram]

Global Values, maybe? They are unlimited.

Marv

[Jeod]

Right. You want an ini file like this:

[Core]
FrameNumber = [number]
PlayerScore = [number]
EquippedWeapon = [number] (Give each weapon an ID number)

[Weapons]
Weapon1 = yes
Weapon2 = no
Weapon3 = no

At runtime you would store these variables in global values, and when the game saves you would save the global values to the correct values in the ini file.

[FlinkGigitty]

Yeah, that looks like something that could work. But Im a little confused on how the saving works.. Could you type an event that starts with "Start of frame", and then saves the score and the frame number in the application path?

[Jeod]

Start of Frame:

INI++
>Set current group "Core"
>Current Group, Set Value "FrameNumber", 0, [number]
>Current Group, Set Value "PlayerScore", 0, [number]
>Current Group, Set Value "EquippedWeapon", 0, [number]

Repeat these steps to save your available weapons.

SPECIAL EVENTS - LOADING
Set Global Value "X" to Retreive data from object, ini++, item value. Do the same for the other values. Define the group, item, then value to load.