I'm rather new to C and I'm making my first lengthy program. I wish for the user to be able to save their progress in the middle of the program so they do not have to start from scratch upon closing it.
Is file manipulation required, or is there a simpler way?
Just print the information into a file and then when they open the program again read the information from the file.
~Sven
Windows XP Home Edition - Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2
board.theprogrammingsite.comOriginally Posted by "The C Programming Language" by Brian W. Kernignhan and Dennis M. Ritchie
i have two answers for you.
1. save game and load game
give luser choose which work to load. option.
2. append file
add to current work or datas
Its unclear precisely what 'progress' you wish to save.
However to save something after a program has terminated
you will need to use a file in one way or another.
A simple way to save info is to redirect stuff the program
prints into a file (printf).
So you the say:-
Myprogram.exe >saveoutput.txt
and then all your printf outputs are saved in the txt file.
Its all about how you can represent this information in your
program - printing all output to a file may not be a good
idea - how would your program interpret this information when
you want to reload?
Its hard to give a specific solution without knowing what
information your game has in use, so I'll just show describe a
basic scenario:
in your game, a user has a current level and a current score.
you want to save this data to be restored later. To save,
write those two numbers out to a file - use some form of
delimiting - for example, putting the two numbers on separate
lines, or using a specific character to delimit (eg a space).
Then to load, read that information back in - the order being
important - you don't want a person to save a game on level
10 and a score of 5000, then reload to level 5000 with a score
of 10!
Hope that clarifies the matter. In summary
1) output the data in a manner in which it can be retieved easily
from the file
2) remember to assign the correct data to the correct variables
When you read in these numbers (particularly the level), you're
program examines the data and decides what level to go to.
No No's:
fflush (stdin); gets (); void main ();
Goodies:
Example of fgets (); The FAQ, C/C++ Reference
My Gear:
OS - Windows XP
IDE - MS Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
I'm still not sure what the actual code should be, and I don't want to save all my printfs.
Say I have variables A, B and C (type int if it's necessary). I need code to save the values of the three variables to a file, and another code to be able to read them upon prompt (I can do that with scanf and an if-else). What code would I use to accomplish these tasks?
Take a look at this little program I wrote - demonstrates
file io and should be sufficiently commented.
Code:#include <stdio.h> int main (void) { int a = 10, b = 20, c = 30; /*variables you want to save*/ int x, y, z; /*just using these to show you reloading in operation*/ FILE *in; /*I could have used 1 pointer twice, but I decided this may be clearer for you*/ FILE *out; /*SAVING DATA*/ if ((out = fopen("savefile.txt", "w")) == NULL) { printf ("Error opening file for writing"); return 1; } fprintf (out, "%d %d %d", a, b, c); /*writing out separated by spaces*/ fclose (out); /*END SAVING DATA*/ /*LOADING DATA*/ if ((in = fopen ("savefile.txt", "r")) == NULL) { printf ("Error opening file for reading"); return 1; } fscanf (in, "%d %d %d", &x, &y, &z); /*reading in separated by spaces*/ fclose (in); /*END LOADING DATA*/ printf ("\nX = %d, Y = %d, Z = %d\n\n", x, y, z); printf ("Press Enter to quit"); getchar (); return 0; }
No No's:
fflush (stdin); gets (); void main ();
Goodies:
Example of fgets (); The FAQ, C/C++ Reference
My Gear:
OS - Windows XP
IDE - MS Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
