Jojie, Leah, Kiahra & Kahyla wrote:
Hi list.
It's been a while since I've touched programming. I have string that I
would like to convert as a variable-name so that I can use that to call
a variable with different values on them.
basically this is what it's supposed to do roughly
on beginspite
myVariable = "myVariable" & the spriteNum of me
end
on mouseUP
put myVariable
end
lingo.ini
-- then you have this here
myVariable1 = "dfddf"
myVariable2 = "etc"
myVariable3 = "etc etc"
It looks like the object of the game here is to pass particular values
to individual sprites from an external (editable) text file.
Consider using the fileIO xtra, then you can use a regular text file
instead of the lingo.ini file.
To get you started, in the message window type:
put interface(xtra"fileio")
This will give you a somewhat terse description of the commands and
their formats.
To use fileIO to read-in the contents of an external file would go
something like this:
FIOobj = new(xtra"fileIO")
FIOobj.openfile("ExternalFileNameWithAppropriatePathInfo.txt",1)
gExternalContent = FIOobj.readFile() -- a global
FIOobj.closefile()
FIOobj = void
You now have the text from the external file as a string in the global
variable gExternalContent and you can parse it as you please.
(Note: This routine has _no_ error checking. Only use something as
bare-bones as this if you have 100% confidence that the external file
will be there and in the correct format)
Your text file could then look like:
1 dfddf
2 etc
3 etc etc
5 more stuff
6 and even more stuff and such
or even
dfddf
etc
etc etc
more stuff
and even more stuff and such
Which would make your beginsprite look like this:
on beginsprite
the itemdelimiter = numtochar(10)
-- or 13 depending on the text file*
myVariable = gExternalContent.item[the spriteNum of me]
end
* in MX, fileIO seems to be reading text in with linefeeds instead of
returns. Did I miss something here? In 8.5 I recall it reading in with
returns. Am I delusional? I'm sure I used to be able to use line[x] on
text read-in by fileIO.
--
Carl West
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