Carved in Shadows wrote:

I made a title screen with the background and tile and 3 buttons (new game, continue, delete) with the following code:

Well, first let's go over the path names. Don't use obj/New, because there's already a New() proc and this is gonna screw you up. Change it to obj/NewCharacter or such.

Now for the individual problems:


<font color="red">> main.dm:24:error:var/savefile/F:undefined var</font>

You're doing three things quite wrong here.

• If you set up a savefile with no filename in new(), it is a runtime-only file and will not be loaded from or saved to anywhere.
• You have to set up a var before sticking it in the proc's arguments, not during. You could put new/savefile() in there directly, and just get rid of F altogether, or initialize F before calling Read().
• Calling Read() here is actually not the right thing to do anyway; that'll call obj/Load/Read(), not mob/Read(), and what you obviously want to do is load a mob from the savefile. You won't be calling Read() directly when doing that, either.
  
  So really, you need to look up how to use savefiles.

<font color="red">> main.dm:28:error:var/savefile/F:undefined var

main.dm:28:error:del :empty argument not allowed
main.dm:28:error::missing expression</font>

Some of the same problems are here, but there are brand new ones. As the compiler told you flat-out, you can't call del() without telling it what to delete. No, this does not tell it to delete a savefile. You may notice it doesn't say anywhere which savefile to delete, and even so you'd need to use fdel() for that. del() is for deleting objects in memory, not files.

Also, it's clear that you shouldn't be calling Write() here at all, since your goal is to delete, not save. And to save, you shouldn't be calling Write() directly.


<font color="red">> main.dm:30:error:var/savefile/F:undefined var</font>

Again the F var isn't initialized properly, and you shouldn't be calling Write() directly.

Lummox JR

You should read the DM Guide before proceeding, including the savefiles chapter..

When you run Move([stuff]), you're actually calling src.Move([stuff]). src in this case is the obj/Load button, since Click() belongs to it. Instead try player.Move(), where player is a variable referring to the player's mob. usr might work here, but usr can sometimes break when saving and loading things, so I'm not entirely sure.

Carved in Shadows wrote:

Ok... Here's a more educated guess then... what about this code:

Well, that isn't really an educated guess because it's clear you did not yet educate yourself on how to use savefiles. You're just taking snippets of code you've seen on the rest of the forums and pasting them in there. That F<<x stuff goes inside Write(), not after. It's also obvious based on the comments that the ..() call you made was meant to go inside the Read() proc, not outside. So you're not only copying and pasting code you don't understand, but because you don't understand it, you're pasting it incorrectly. And as I said, you should not be calling Write() directly. That isn't how savefiles are generally used.

You're also using the same savefile for all players. If one player saves, they'll overwrite all the others.

What you need to do in each save/load proc is first open up the correct savefile for that player, and then save or load their entire mob using the << or >> operators (respectively). Those will call Read() and Write() for you, and the code you've now pasted in underneath those routines, should instead go in them.

But before you attempt to do any of that, go to the DM Guide and actually read the chapter on savefiles. Once that gives you a pretty good grasp of what to do, you'll know how to proceed.

Lummox JR