Save Tool

[jediaction]

I used it in Halo 2. It works great, but you have to have the file it is looking for to switch to, in the same folder.

[x2495iiii]

Ought I to sticky this post most excellent?

[Dj Tech42]

Originally Posted by x2495iiii

Ought I to sticky this post most excellent?

Yes

[jediaction]

Very cool. now it's a sticky post. So, what exactly do sticky posts do X2495iiii? I never really learned what they were.

[arty-fishL]

Multiquote time

Originally Posted by Dj Tech42

I was using your string-to-number conversion script before, but this should make things faster.
I haven't been able to try this yet, but it sounds good. However, I may have to change some things to make it cross-platform like I did with the File I/O Tool.

It should work perfectly cross platform, without any changes. You don't actually do anything with files, that is all handled by the tool, you just ask it to save or load a variable. Everything, for every game using this is stored in one file, this is a better approach than using multiple files. You therefore definitely need to set the game_title and author variables otherwise you might interfere with somebody else's saves.

Originally Posted by jediaction

I used it in Halo 2. It works great, but you have to have the file it is looking for to switch to, in the same folder.

That's the World Loader Tool you're talking about, this is a new tool for saving.

Originally Posted by x2495iiii

Ought I to sticky this post most excellent?

Originally Posted by Dj Tech42

Yes

Yay .

[x2495iiii]

Forsooth.

[DensetsuNoKaboom]

Looks like this is exactly what Alice needs, thank you!

EDIT: I made a simple world to test this tool. It works perfectly as far as I can tell.

[Dj Tech42]

I'm getting a KeyError with it...


Error during simulation.


Alice version: 2.2 12/01/2011

Throwable that caused the error:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.property.ScriptPrope rty[name=script,owner=edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.core.res ponse.ScriptResponse[world.saveTool.has_var.__Unnamed2__]]", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 42, in has
KeyError: Dj Tech42.License to Fly.__default

[Lirtjasksta]

Any error for this FileIOTool.. I will try to download this one... thanks

[arty-fishL]

I know I said I will be gone for a while, but I cant leave without fixing bugs in this .

Dj Tech42, the error your getting is in a validity check I have. For every game there is a default value automatically saved upon every save that must equal "valid", under the name "__default" (please don't use any names with double underscores at the start when saving, they are reserved for use by the internal workings of the tool, I should have said that in the main post, but that is not the problem here anyway).
What I should have noticed in the code is that when that value does not exist there will be an error when the code tries to get it.

I've fixed it by adding my friendly dict class (a class that emulates a python dictionary, but does not throw horrible errors) that I built for Addons.

I've updated the top post with the new version.
I hope no more bugs come up, bye for a while.