INI help

[gamer123]

So I've read over the INI tutorial pdf file from this website and I think i get the hang of it some what. What I am attempting to do is this, once i defeat all the enemies on stage 1 and reach the end of the stage, i want the health,lives and score to be saved and have it load on the next stage. I know it might sound simple but I really do not know where to even start. Ive been told the INI is what i need to do this. Any help is appreciated.

[Shawn]

I created a simple example that shows how you'd go about doing this. Just customize it to what you are doing and it should work. I'm not sure what exactly you are doing but score and lives should stay the same over frames. And if you set the health counter to global it should carry over too. But I made the example to show you how your method would work. Where you press space bar to save and go to next frame you'd replace with last enemy destroyed or enemies = 0.

Lol typo in the comment in the frame, it adds 10 to score, not 1 :P

[gamer123]

Thanks a lot man! This is exactly what i was looking for. For example, lets say the game saves automatically after you finish stage 1 then it takes you to stage 2. But you dont want to continue the game now so you press quit and then later on in the menu you press continue to start stage 2. Can I use your method for that?

[Shawn]

Oh I see what you mean. Yeah you could do that with this method. Just have it save the ini on each frame or level. If you want to have it save your level you are on, add another item to the ini, like Current Level or something. You could use a global value to track that. Just have it save those values when you choose to quit the game. Then when you load the game you can have it jump to the frame number equal to the global value after you loaded all the values from the ini. For the global just have something like Start of Frame on first level, set global A to 1. Second level set it to 2, etc and save it with the other values.

You don't actually need to load all the values in each frame every time, just save them before you go to the next level. Then at the beginning of your game if you click on continue or whatever you have, then set the lives, score, health, and level number to the values from the ini.

[Paul_Boland]

If you want to drop me an email to pkb@iol.ie I'll send you a tutorial which is written in leeman's terms.

[iamjot]

Yes the sums it up. thx for the file!