So I'm trying to write the save/load feature for my HoV and I've hit a problem. I'm trying to save the name of the map the player is on, which I stored in a string var called sMap. Then I wrote it to a file like this

FileWriteString(handle, sMap);

Then when they go to load the file I do this

sMap = FileReadString(handle);

Problem is once I read the string back in it has a few garbage characters tacked on to the end. Am I doing something wrong?

Are you sure you have the 2004.04.21 build? This:

string sMap = "testing.map";


int f = fileopen("testing.txt",2);


FileWriteString(f, sMap);


FileWriteString(f, sMap);


FileClose(f);





f = fileopen("testing.txt",1);


sMap = FileReadString(f);


log(sMap + "eos");


sMap = FileReadString(f);


log(sMap + "eos");


FileClose(f);

logs

testing.mapeos


testing.mapeos

for me.

El

I've run into this problem with my battlesystem too. To work around this, I just also write the lenght of my string to the file. Not very elegant, but it works.
Like this:

Writing:


FileWriteString(myFile, myString);


FileWriteByte(Myfile, len(myString);





Loading:


TestString = FileReadString(File);


MyString = left(TestString, FileReadByte(MyFile));





This should also work for loading, but I didn't tested it:


MyString = left(FileReadString(File), FileReadByte(MyFile));

I encountered this bug a while back (I was probably the first, in fact) and it's a bastard. The easiest, cleanest workaround is to NOT use WriteString but to use FileWriteln (sorry if that might not be quite how it's spelt, look it up in the docs). Instead of writing strings to a file as a continuous block, it outputs each string as a seperate line. Use this for INTs too and it works like a treat. I'm using it in my HOV entry, Parallel Seven.

Mind you, it makes save files easier to hack, although that can be a bonus when bug-hunting.

Behold the power of the VERGE developer

All is wounderful in the relm of FileWriteString

Er, Vecna: the FileWriteString bugfix is nice, but now VERGE isn't giving me any sound output. What did you DO?!

-agh double post... sorry-

Quote:Originally posted by Kildorf

I'm having the same problem as Interference... where is our sound? ;_:

Also does Verge now/will Verge in the future support .ogg as a music format?
Actually, I just tested, and .ogg works beautifully. :)

Ness:

The parameter is 'nosound'. When nosound is 1/true, there will be no sound.

I think his boolean paradigm is the same as the rest of the world's ;)

Er, actually, my CFG says "nosound 0" and there's no sound. That's not right, right?

By my reasoning, Ness is almost right: nosound 1 should turn sound OFF but it isn't. Vecna has the boolean argument for sound inverted: 1 is now false and 0 is now true. The result? A perfectly normal VERGE.CFG is now turning the sound off.

Vecna, could we have it back as it was, please? The new way is either a mistake or an attempt to confuse everyone.