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Apr 29 2002, 2:37 pm

This is my first forray into savefiles. I need to save and load world globals. Also a quick question. Can lists be saved?
This code here does not seem to work correctly and I am not positive how to make a savefile correctly.

var
    global
        currentcycle = 0
        gametime = 0  //running clock
        timeinterval = 10 //How long until a gametime tick in 1/10 of a second?
        nextperiod  //When is the next period of darkness?
        lastperiod //When was the beginning of this period?
        cycleperiod = 120 //How long does a period last?
world
    area = /area/outside
    turf = /turf/grass
    view = 5
    New()
        ..()
        var/savefile/worldsave = new("globals.sav")
        worldsave["cycle"] >> currentcycle
        worldsave["time"] >> gametime
        worldsave["nperiod"] >> nextperiod
        worldsave["lperiod"] >> lastperiod
    Del()
        world << "Saving global variables..."
        var/savefile/worldsave = new("globals.sav")
        worldsave["cycle"] << currentcycle
        worldsave["time"] << gametime
        worldsave["nperiod"] << nextperiod
        worldsave["lperiod"] << lastperiod
        world << "Global Variables have been saved."

#1 Apr 29 2002, 4:01 pm (Edited on Apr 29 2002, 4:06 pm)

DarkTitan

I believe this would work for saving lists, note: just an example.

var/list/bah

world/New()
..()
var/savefile/F = new("bah.sav")
F["bah"] >> bah
if(isnull(bah))
bah = new /list
world/Del()
var/savefile/F = new("bah.sav")
F["bah"] << bah
..()

That should work post if it doesn't :)

Also one thing I believe what you put should have worked.. Did you get errors and are you sure they aren't saving and loading?