Need to completely bypass Load and Save popups

[noelbruton]

Hi,

Looking for a savegame/loadgame more in keeping with the look and feel of our game design rather than a generic OS-style popup box. (I know I can use Shadowhunter's input-box script for box design, but that doesn't do loads and saves).

I want my player to load a game by clicking a graphic in a hotspot rather than from a line of text in the Loadgame popup. To do that, I'd have to bypass the Loadgame popup completely. I guess that the popup must call some other function that loads the game - can we not have access directly to that function please?

Also, rather than have the player load the savegame popup, I'd like to save at any point - so what's needed I think is a function that saves the game without the popup, say something like:
'Action.savegame FILENAME'

It must be possible - it will just be the code behind the popup.

PLEASE!

Noel Bruton
Arberth Studios
info@arberthstudios.com
www.arberthstudios.com

[noelbruton]

Using code from a number of sources, I wrote a script to save games from a hotspot. It uses the CreateObject function. When I try to run it, I get back a popup saying "For security reasons CreateObject is denied" or words to that effect. I looked it up at Microsoft Technet and they have no reference to the message. Does it come from Adventure Maker? And does that mean that I cannot write to a file from within Adventure Maker?

This is so frustrating. Anybody got any ideas please?

Thanks

Noel Bruton

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Sub WriteSaveFile

Dim objFSO, objFolder, objShell, objTextFile, objFile
Dim strDirectory, strFile, strText1, strValue1, strText2, strValue2, strCurrentFrame
strDirectory = "c:\noelsave"
strFile = "\filesave.txt"
strText1 = "V1"
strValue = V1
strText2 = "V2"
strValue2= V2
strCurrentFrame = Action.GetCurrentFrameName

' Create the File System Object
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

' Check that the strDirectory folder exists
If objFSO.FolderExists(strDirectory) Then
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory)
Else
Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strDirectory)
WScript.Echo "Just created " & strDirectory
End If

If objFSO.FileExists(strDirectory & strFile) Then
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory)
Else
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(strDirectory & strFile)
Wscript.Echo "Just created " & strDirectory & strFile
End If

set objFile = nothing
set objFolder = nothing

Const ForWriting = 2

Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile (strDirectory & strFile, ForWriting, True)

objTextFile.WriteLine(strText1)
objTextFile.WriteLine(strValue1)
objTextFile.WriteLine(strText2)
objTextFile.WriteLine(strValue2)
objTextFile.WriteLine(strCurrentFrame)

objTextFile.Close

WScript.Quit

End Sub

[Imari]

Hi Noel, I think that Shadow Hunter will be your best bet in solving this. I can't script in VB6, but I spent a few minute doing a search for your terms and of the several websites/forums that I found, almost all of the "CreateObject denied" messages dealt with server or internet permissions. I don't suppose that you're working on a desk top server, are you?

This would be a very nice feature. I hope that you're successful. I know that with ShadowHunter's HotSpot Magic and KeyGuard you can set up keys and/or hotspots to open the Load or Save screens from any frame. Using both programs, I had an earlier version of my game set up so that the bottom of the frames had common hotpots that could take you to alternate inventory and menu screens. If I recall, however, you did get the MS-style pop-ups on save. I'm in the middle of transfering files to my new computer, so am unable to check at the moment, sorry.

BTW, I checked out your website and signed up for updates on Rhiannon. Very, very nice. Good luck with your game.

[noelbruton]

Hello Imari

Thanks for your input.

No, there's nothing odd about the environment I'm using - XP SP2. Thing is, AM couldn't exist if it couldn't write a file, so I know there's a solution. I've sent a mail to Contact2006 - is that Shadowhunter? I've every confidence this one can be sorted coz it must already work for so many other aspects of the engine.

Cheers

Noel

[Imari]

Contact 2006 is GM, the creator of AM. Shadowhunter is one of the monitors, and the creator of many of the plug-ins for AM. He posted a couple days ago that he'd just gotten back from vacation and would return soon.

I did find this earlier thread, in case it helps ---
http://www.adventuremaker.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2864&highlight=save

Again, good luck.