At 6:47 am -0800 7/12/01, Niklas "Almesj�" wrote: >What is the best way to write and read variables? >When using Authorware there was a pretty convinient >way to do it with property lists. Property lists >looked something like this: "width":50, "height": 30 >then you could just write the list to a textfile, read >it in and do a List(theText) and you had the list >again. Anything similar (or even better) in Rev? >thanks, >/Niklas
You bet! :) The equivalent of Authorware's property lists is Rev's associative arrays. So you might do something in your app like this: put 50 into tData["width"] put 30 into tData["height"] put "wood" into tData["material"] In Rev 1.1 (I think) the combine and split commands allow you to convert between arrays and text easily, So, using the above data: combine tData using cr and "=" will convert tData to the following width=50 height=30 material=wood To put this into a file: put tData into url "file:C:/whatever.txt" #(or similar) To do the reverse: put url "file:C:/whatever.txt" into tData split tData using cr and "=" Cheers Dave Cragg _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
