Reading Data

[Zethzune]

Is it possible to load something other than save data from a file?
I am working on a menu screen to read books instead of using events and messages or something sloppy like that. I want to be able to load text for books in the game out of a data file rather than putting the text into the code. Currently I have to store the text in the code.

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   @data = []
   case $game_temp.journal
   when 1 #Cyrilis Omikar
     @data.push("[This book is blank]")
     @data.push("")
   end


I have no problem with loading the text line by line but I'd prefer that the lines were coming from a file instead of out of the game code.

[shaz]

sure.

f = File.open(filename, "r")
while text = f.gets
  print text
end
f.close

[Zethzune]

sure.

f = File.open(filename, "r")
while text = f.gets
  print text
end
f.close

What is "r"?

[shaz]

"r" means for reading.  You're opening the file for reading.

or, instead of the print text that I have above, you'd just use @data.push text

[Zethzune]

"r" means for reading.  You're opening the file for reading.

or, instead of the print text that I have above, you'd just use @data.push text

Thanks, that works great. Now if only I could get modern algebra's paragraph formatter working in my game D:

[shaz]

hehe - you'll have to go to MA for help with that one

[Zethzune]

hehe - you'll have to go to MA for help with that one

Edit (Apparently I forgot how to communicate): Would it be possible to modify that code to recognize a "page break" in the file so I can split text into multiple pages?

[spoiler]Any ideas on how to make scrolling windows without a selection bar? My class window_reader is a child of window_selectable to get the scrolling function but apparently that only works if there is selectable items in the window. I was thinking the other solution would be to have multiple pages but the load method there gives me the whole file... Is there a way I could put a marker in the file to split it into pages, or only get the file 16 lines at a time? I feel like a retard but I don't understand how the file operations work. x_x[/spoiler]

[shaz]

you could just increment a counter each time you read a line, and pause for player input after 16 lines.

Or you could put a special code - something like [page] as a line in the file, and each time you read a line, see if the text read in is [page] - if it is, stop reading.

This makes it a bit more complicated.

[Zethzune]

Next question. It doesn't seem to be able to read special characters like "ü". Would it be possible to fix this?

I seem to have fixed it. I wrote a substring substitution thing like in the base message code to replace \:u with ü. The base RMXP code is a mess, it's all class based for no reason; the code is just duplicated everywhere instead of being part of the parent class. I have an overwhelming urge to tear it all out and rewrite the RMXP base code myself. @_@ must not OCD.

I'm going to see if I can move substring substitution out of the window_message class and into the window_base class so it's accessible anywhere.

[shaz]

sorry - that's more than I know.  Is it not reading it, or not displaying it?  Is it possible that the font you've chosen doesn't have those special characters?

[ngoaho]

for text file (*.txt)
read:

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file = File.open("filedir","r")
contents = file.read
file.close
write at end of file:

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my_string = "oh my god"# only string allowed
file = File.open("filedir","a")
file.write(my_string)
file.close
overwrite:

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my_string = "oh my god"
file = File.open("filedir","wb")
file.write(my_string)
file.close

for rpg maker xp file(*.rxdata)
save

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var = "cuckoo"# can be array, number,....
file = File.open("filedir","a")# replace "a" with "wb" for overwrite
Marshal.dump(var, file)
file.close
load

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file = File.open("filedir","r")
var = Marshal.load(file)
file.close