Saving a high score

slurik

Hello folks,

I am taking a computer science class this semester and for our final assignment we are asked to build a game. Within the grading rubric it asks that we keep a high score. I have successfully done this, however the high score changes back to zero when the program is shut off, then run again. Is there a method to permanently store a high score into a variable such that it will conserve the value after the program is shut down?

Thanks for your time !

Chrisir

saveStrings() ?

slambeetle

A quick look up or reading and writing to .txt files with processing showed me this page. If your saving a highscore then save the number there. Look at this page https://www.processing.org/tutorials/data/ and scroll a little down. Hope this helps.

Chrisir

yeah or you want to write

name, score, date, time

in a file

when there are 5 or 20 persons in the list, write this

(or you have only one number without a name?)

you can join name, score, date, time by adding + them, e.g. with #

list[i] = name + "#" + score + "#" + dateMy + "#" + timeMy;

dateMy and timeMy must be defined before

dateMy = year()+month()+day() ; // use nf(x, 2);

;-)

blindfish

@Chrisir: manually adding a delimiter can of course work, but what happens when someone decides to use # in their name?

There are more robust alternatives to saveStrings which I would hope avoid this issue - e.g. saveXML, saveJSONArray and maybe saveTable...

Chrisir

oh, that's right!