Re: game development question:reading and writing game data to and from files
- From: Rui Batista <ruiandrebatista@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:17:22 +0100
Why don't you use DBM files or sqlite or something?
Flex/bison/parsing-almost-from-scratch stuff is better to do things more
complex then that, like programming languages, complex configuration
files, Etc... You are just saving data I think.
Just my to cents.
Best regards,
Rui Batista
Dom, 2009-07-12 às 10:50 -0600, Tyler Littlefield escreveu:
> I like that idea. Do you have any good resources for bison? I've tried a few
> times and never managed to understand how it works all that well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Cox" <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: game development question:reading and writing game data to and
> from files
>
>
> In general, for complex databases, I prefer to write custom
> reader/writers using bison/flex. An ASCII file that mirrors your
> classes well has many advantages. You can edit it easily, and it's
> fairly simple to maintain backwards compatibility with previous
> versions.
>
> Bill
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Tyler Littlefield<tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > hmm, so I would store the pointer to an int/string/double.
> > I need to be able to tell what it is though, no?
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 10:36 AM
> > Subject: RE: game development question:reading and writing game data to
> > and
> > from files
> >
> >
> >> The map definitely handles this bro.
> >>
> >> Just don't make it a map of primative to primative, make it a map of
> >> primative to object. That object can be of any type you like.
> >>
> >> Take care,
> >> Sina
> >>
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> >> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
> >> Littlefield
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:18 PM
> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: game development question:reading and writing game data to and
> >> from
> >> files
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello all,
> >> I've started work on a custom mud, and am trying to figure something out.
> >> Each player will have a set of keys that will be stored, name, connect
> >> time,
> >> creation time, etc.
> >> I was thinking of storing these in a map, but that requires that the map
> >> hold multiple values; something which the c++ map doesn't do.
> >> So, I'm trying to figure something out.
> >> I'd like to be able to store player data, and a list of the player's
> >> inventory so the objects can be recreated when the player connects
> >> somehow.
> >> I would need to store object type, name, etc etc.
> >> I'm not quite sure how I could achieve this easily; I could possibly
> >> itterate through the map once I've gotten the data type thing figured out
> >> and do something like write key=value.
> >> Then when I loaded it I could just strtok on the = and set that up, but
> >> I'm
> >> not quite sure how I'd handle inventory and that.
> >> This is the only snag I'm having so far, and I'm not able to move on
> >> without
> >> it, as I'm to the point where I need to start saving player data, so help
> >> would be really appriciated at this point. :)
> >> Thanks,
> >>
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