High Scores in Lingo....HOW!?
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Hello All,
First of all...sorry if this is in the wrong forum.
I have just finished a game in Macromedia Director using Lingo and I really want to add a high score to the end.
How do I do this? Do I have to use FileI/O??
Any help or links to tutorials would be much appreciated as I cannot find how to do this anywhere...and i have spent ages looking!!
Regards
Chris
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Having looked around this forum now I have found some help although it all seems way to complicated.
All i want is a simple top 5 list and that outputs to a text file then ammends it each time.
This is for a university assignment and I dont have to go to indepth to other languages than lingo to get the grade. It would just be nice to put a high score table in.
There must be a simple way of doing this rather than going into ASP, C++ languages etc etc.
I literally need something that will take me an hour to implement.
Hope this is possible....(bet theres not such a thing as a simple high score table)
Thanks again
All i want is a simple top 5 list and that outputs to a text file then ammends it each time.
This is for a university assignment and I dont have to go to indepth to other languages than lingo to get the grade. It would just be nice to put a high score table in.
There must be a simple way of doing this rather than going into ASP, C++ languages etc etc.
I literally need something that will take me an hour to implement.
Hope this is possible....(bet theres not such a thing as a simple high score table)
Thanks again
I don't know Lingo at all.
However, if Lingo supports file I/O, i e reading and writing files, then you need a few functions:
1) a function which takes a list of five (name,score) pairs, and writes them to a file of a given name (say, "hiscores.dat")
2) a function which reads a file of a given name (say, "hiscores.dat") and returns a list of five (name,score) pairs.
3) a function which, when given a (name,score) pair, reads the existing file if it exists, adds the sixth name,score pair, sorts the list, drops the last item, and then writes the file again.
As for how file I/O actually works (how to read/write "hiscores.dat") I'd suggest looking in the Lingo help files. I know that file I/O is probably curtailed, as Shockwave is possible to be executed from the web...
However, if Lingo supports file I/O, i e reading and writing files, then you need a few functions:
1) a function which takes a list of five (name,score) pairs, and writes them to a file of a given name (say, "hiscores.dat")
2) a function which reads a file of a given name (say, "hiscores.dat") and returns a list of five (name,score) pairs.
3) a function which, when given a (name,score) pair, reads the existing file if it exists, adds the sixth name,score pair, sorts the list, drops the last item, and then writes the file again.
As for how file I/O actually works (how to read/write "hiscores.dat") I'd suggest looking in the Lingo help files. I know that file I/O is probably curtailed, as Shockwave is possible to be executed from the web...
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