Data save and call

Bananaman949

i am making a jeopardy game and i want to make a code that creates the categories and the questions, save them, and then open them in the jeopardy game. is this possible? If so, how?

Chrisir

Save and load

look at saveTable and loadTable OR

saveStrings and loadStrings

https://www.processing.org/reference/

to use different sketches on the same files (like one sketch is creating them and the other sketch is loading them) store in a separate folder and use absolute paths.

Display text in a grid

Then use text() to display it in a grid. Use a double for-loop

How to choose the Categories

The harder part is to choose from lots of categories randomly and then choose questions randomly that fit the category. It’s probably easy when you have just 17 categories and just the fixed number of questions for each category.

jeremydouglass

If you search the reference for the word "save" as @Chrisir suggests:

• https://processing.org/reference/

...you will also see that your save/load options include a file of strings, a csv Table, JSON, and XML. If you are not already familiar with JSON then it sounds like Table might work best for you -- it is fairly simple and also flexible.

One approach is to have a list of six categories, and a table of questions, with the category (1-6) and the price (1-5) each listed in a table column next to each question. Then you can search the table by category/price to fill slots in your grid with specific questions.

Bananaman949

thanks, I'm stupid, didn't look too well apparently

jeremydouglass

Don't worry -- let us know in this thread if you have follow-up questions after you try working with these functions.

Chrisir

still some errors in it but I show you a simple grid

// source data
String[] sourceData = {"City,Population,Area", 
  "Tokyo-Yokohama,37239000,8547", 
  "Jakarta (Jabotabek),26746000,2784", 
  "Seoul-Incheon,22868000,2163", 
  "Delhi DL-HR-UP,22826000,1943", 
  "Shanghai SHG,21766000,3497", 
  "Manila,21241000,1437", 
  "Karachi,20877000,803", 
  "New York NY-NJ-CT,20673000,11642", 
  "Sao Paulo,20568000,3173", 
  "Mexico City,20032000,2046"}; 

// table where the data gets moved into 
Table table;

// headlines of table (from sourceData) 
String[] firstLine; 

// -----------------------------------------------------------

void setup() {

  size(1200, 675); //size of screen

  // Font 
  PFont myFont=createFont("Arial", 12);
  textFont(myFont);

  // ----
  // get data into table 

  table = new Table(); // or use loadTable on csv 

  // headlines!
  firstLine = split(sourceData[0].trim(), ',');

  // columns from headlines 
  for (int i = 0; i < firstLine.length; i++) {
    table.addColumn(firstLine[i].trim());
  }//for 

  // rows from sourceData
  for (int i = 1; i < sourceData.length; i++) {
    println(sourceData[i]);

    // split one line from sourceData
    String[] dataLine=split(sourceData[i].trim(), ',');

    println(dataLine[1]);
    println(dataLine[2]);

    // put into row 
    TableRow newRow = table.addRow();
    newRow.setString(firstLine[0], dataLine[0] );
    newRow.setInt(firstLine[1], int(dataLine[1]));
    newRow.setInt(firstLine[2], int(dataLine[2]));
  }//for
  //
}//function 

void draw() {   

  background(0); 

  // calc the width of one column 
  //  float factor = (width - 25) / table.getRowCount();  

  // headline in green -----------------
  fill(0, 255, 0); // green 
  int i2 = 0; 
  text (firstLine[0], 22, i2*34+44); 
  text (firstLine[1], 222, i2*34+44); 
  text (firstLine[2], 333, i2*34+44);

  stroke(0, 255, 0); // green 
  line(0, i2*34+44+8, width, i2*34+44+8); 


  // rows in white ----------------------------
  for (int i = 0; i < table.getRowCount(); i++) {

    TableRow thisLine = table.getRow(i);

    int lado = (thisLine.getInt("Area"));

    fill(255);
    text (thisLine.getString("City"), 22, i*34+77); 
    text (lado, 222, i*34+77); 
    text (thisLine.getInt("Population"), 333, i*34+77); 

    //When the mouse hovers over a line the name of the city appears.
    if (mouseY > i*34+77-13 && 
      mouseY < i*34+77+13) {

      // draw a box
      float dist = 103;
      stroke(111);       //   
      fill(253, 248, 22); // yellow 
      rect (300+dist, 
        i*34+77-60+dist, 
        textWidth(thisLine.getString("City"))+10, 
        32, 
        9);
      noStroke(); 

      // draw text 
      fill(0); 
      text(thisLine.getString("City"), 300+dist+3, 
        i*34+77-60+dist + 18 );
    } // if
  }//for
  //
} // draw 
//