Character Saving - Textfile style

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Oct 29 2002, 10:42 am
Heh. That rhymes.

Anyways, a textfile saving method would be much smaller, probably faster, and easier to edit than the stand BYOND savefile format. I, first, have a few question or two.

1) Are variables kept in a list? I believe they are, but I am not positive, nor have I tested anything.

2) if(1) Are variables able to be manipulated through a list?

With this knowledge, I should be able to complete my saving method. I have plenty of list manipulation procs for lists, as well as some Foomerian little wonders. Who would be interested in this sort of library? *Note: This would be a bad library to use with hubfiles, for security reasons*


~Polatrite~
Oct 29 2002, 10:53 am
vars is a list but it can not be changed at runtime.
Oct 29 2002, 10:56 am
In response to Super16
True, you can't change the vars list itself, but through it you can change (almost) all of the vars themselves, which is what I think he needs.

-AbyssDragon
Oct 29 2002, 10:58 am
You can actually make regular savefiles into plaintext using ImportText() and ExportText().. but your library might still have a use somewhere. Regular savefiles imported that way aren't always easily readable.

-AbyssDragon
Oct 29 2002, 11:17 am
Polatrite wrote:
Heh. That rhymes.

Anyways, a textfile saving method would be much smaller, probably faster, and easier to edit than the stand BYOND savefile format. I, first, have a few question or two.

1) Are variables kept in a list? I believe they are, but I am not positive, nor have I tested anything.

2) if(1) Are variables able to be manipulated through a list?

With this knowledge, I should be able to complete my saving method. I have plenty of list manipulation procs for lists, as well as some Foomerian little wonders. Who would be interested in this sort of library? *Note: This would be a bad library to use with hubfiles, for security reasons*

Heck, you don't even need to worry about lists.
You can use ExportText() and save in the text equivalent of the BYOND-native format. Strangely this seems to still be smaller than its binary equivalent.
mob/proc/SaveAsText()
  var/savefile/S=new
  S[ckey(name)] << src
  var/filename="characters/[ckey(key)].txt"
  fdel(filename)
  S.ExportText("/",filename)
The resulting file will still be easy to edit.

Lummox JR
Oct 29 2002, 12:21 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Smaller, yes -- safer, no. ;-)