Re: 2 important questions regarding BGT.
If you want to make translations user-editable, like Swamp, then you wouldn't be able to use serialization.The key is to understand how to store and retrieve information in strings.I'd probably do it like this (just an example; you will probably need to come up with something more suited to your project):string translate(string source) {
string result;
language.get(source, result);
return (result=="") ? source : result;
}
bool load_translation(string language) {
if(!file_exists(language + ".lng")) return false;
file fin;
fin.open(language + ".lng", "r");
string txt=string_replace(fin.read(0), "\r", "\n", true); // Windows line breaks are weird.
fin.close();
string[] lines=string_split(txt, "\n", true);
for(uint i=0; i<lines.length(); i+=2) {
if(i<lines.length()-1) lang.set(lines[i], lines[i+1]);
}
return true;
}I would probably use serialization for other settings, though, since you wouldn't need to edit your save/load functions when you add/remove settings.For example:dictionary config;
void load_settings() {
if(!file_exists("my_game.cfg")) return;
file fin;
fin.open("my_game.cfg", "rb");
config=deserialize(fin.read(0)); // You could encrypt it, if you want.
fin.close();
}
void save_settings() {
file fout;
fout.open("my_game.cfg", "wb");
fout.write(serialize(config));
fout.close();
}
void main() {
load_settings();
if(config.exists("language")) {
string language;
config.get("language", language);
load_translation(language);
}
if(config.exists("no logo")==false) logo();
// Etc...
}
void settings_menu() {
// If you use a dynamic_menu, it might look like this:
int result=settingsmenu.run("settingsmenu.ogg", false);
string n=settingsmenu.get_item_name(result);
if(n=="logo")
{
if(config.exists("no logo")) config.delete("no logo"); // I forget the method name for removing from dictionaries. Remove? Destroy?
else config.set("no logo", 1);
}
else if(n=="language") {
dynamic_menu languagemenu;
string[] files=find_files("*.lng");
for(uint i=0; i<files.length(); i++) {
languagemenu.add_item_tts(string_left(files[i], files[i].length()-4), files[i]);
}
languagemenu.add_item_tts("cancel", "cancel");
result=languagemenu.run(translate("choose language"), true);
n=languagemenu.get_item_name(result);
if(n!="cancel") config.set("language", n);
}
}hth
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=261251#p261251
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