Thread: saving/inventory help please

When saving variables, you should save them to binary files, not text files.

1) Make a type of your stuct

typedef struct
{
...
}StructType;

2) Save it using filepointers (C) or fstream (C++)

This is an example of file pointers:

Code:

StructType MyStruct;

...

FILE* File;
File=fopen("Save.dat", "wb");
if(File!=NULL)
{
   write(&MyStruct, sizeof(StructType), 1, File);
   close(File);
}

You basically do the same when reading the file, but use read instead of write

>>and I want the user to be able to save this to a text file to be able to load next time they play, how exactly do you do this.

this is the basic stuff...

Code:

#include<fstream.h> //used for file-handling

int main()
{
int points,health,armor;
int indata;

ofstream fout;  //used to open file for writing
ifstream fin;   //used for reading

fout.open("P1STATS.DAT");
fout<<points<<"\n"<<health<<"\n"<<armor<<"\n";
fout.close(); //close the file after work

fin.open("P1STATS.DAT");
while(!fin.eof())
{
 fin>>indata;
 cout<<indata<<"\n";
}
fin.close();

return 0;
}

you could also search/look around about files in c/c++/game boards as it is asked a lot of times.



>>I'm also having trouble thinking of a way to handle the inventory. I'm pretty sure a structure is the best way...

structures will be fine. if the data is global then the user can access the data any time he wants.

But this is basically done by the programming done by you. if you want him to access, then code accordingly else dont put any code where he can access.