Hello, Thanks for all the help on my project before. I now want to write to a text file so i can save high scores in the game. The problem is it crashes and i end the process but it ends to fast so i can not see the error. Here is what i want to do. At the end of a game write to the file "score.txt" and then load it later on. Here is what i did. StreamWriter tw ; protected override void Initialize() { tw = new StreamWriter("score.txt"); tw.Close(); tr = new StreamReader("score.txt"); tr.Close(); ... } in the draw method there is a statement to see if you win if you , this executes tw.Write(" "); tw.Write(points.ToString()); tw.Close(); i am new to this and so far i had a lot of tutorials say different things. So far it crashes when it reaches this point and i am not sure why. I made a console app that does this and it works fine but what am i doing wrong in my xna project where it does not write and it crashes? Should i post more code or is what i posted enough to show you what i did wrong? I have only had tutorials to go off of on how to do this. Thanks

The problem is your StreamWriter is closed.

The way your code is written, you are creating a stream, closing it and then trying to write to it. You probably get this exception...

"Cannot write to a closed TextWriter."

I'd take the code out and check the high score in "Update" and write a helper method to output the score. Bear in mind that this is just a suggestion.


private void WriteHighScore()
{
using( System.IO.StreamWriter tw = new System.IO.StreamWriter("score.txt"))
{
tw.Write(" ");
tw.Write(whatever...);
}
}