Save and load different Texts at Once?

[Jahkri]

Hi Everybody,
i know there should be a lot of examples of this, strangely i was not able to find an appropriate. It sounds really simple, but i was not able to solve it right now.

Problem: You have 3 (or more) Editboxes. The User writes some Text into the different Editboxes. By clicking a Save-Button the Text of the 3 Editboxes should be saved in a Ini-File. Similarly when the User clicks on a Load-Button, the Text for the 3 Editboxes should be loaded. I think Fastloops are a part to solve this Problem.
Could someone please explain or share a link to an MFA that explains this?

Thanks in Advance and Greets

jahkri

[MuddyMole]

You're seriously over-thinking this.
It's no different from changing three alterable values at the same time. You don't need fastloops or anything like that - just one event with 3 actions.

eg.
+ Save clicked
-> Ini: write edittext("Edit1") to item "string1"
-> Ini: write edittext("Edit2") to item "string2"
-> Ini: write edittext("Edit3") to item "string3"

[Jahkri]

Hey MuddyMole,

thanks for the explanation. Because until now i' ve never had to set more than one string or value to an Ini-File at once i' ve always used the "single"-Ini-Actions like:

+ on button clicked
- set file to...
- set group to...
- set item to...

and then retrieve the value or string in the appropriate "object". I was not aware that one can specify the "Group" and "Item" in the "Receive-Data from external Object"-Command. I was in the believe that it always had to be set by an "Action" in the Ini-File...

But i think i understand the process completely now. Anyway, thanks MuddyMole for your fast reply. Thanks and Greets,

jahkri

[Jahkri]

Hey MuddyMole (or anybody else),

perhaps there is another way to save my Editboxes that would use fastloops. In Fact i have to save 120 Editboxes at once. I think adding 120times the same condition in one Event-Action would be somewhat crazy.

Could you give me a hint how this could be done (should i use an Array instead of an Ini?)

Thanks and Greets,

jahkri

[MuddyMole]

Why did you say 3 if you really mean 120?

// Note that the edit boxes must all be duplicates.
+ Start of frame
-> Editbox: Spread value 0 in ID

+ Save button clicked
-> Start fastloop "save", 120 times

// Use an array instead of an ini; make sure it is set to be a text array not a number array, and that "1-based index" is not selected.
+ On loop "save"
+ Editbox: ID = loopindex("Save")
-> Array: write Edittext("Editbox") to array at position loopindex("Save")

Same thing for loading again...

[Jahkri]

Hi MuddyMole,

thanks for your reply. In the Beginning i was just testing if i would be able to do it for 3 Editboxes because i thouhgt that it
would be the same way to do it for 120 Editboxes. It later became
clear to me that it would be a lot of work to add 120 Times the
Action to save the Data. I try to implement your method.

Thanks again for your kind reply.