saving data

[Johan1923]

ok, while working on my project theres really one thing thats preventing it from being "complete" and thats making it so that the Edit Boxes keep the text thats typed into them between game sessions.

so my question would be how would u set it up so that the data gets marked/flagged for saving?

ive looked on wowwiki, and i have like the beginnings of an idea but im still not sure how to do it. anyone able to give me like some example code based around an editbox? or a better explination of how to mark it to be saved.

[Shirik]

In your TOC file, you need a line that goes:

## SavedVariables: <var>
## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: <var>

where <var> is some variable you want to be saved. You don't need both of these -- if you use the former, it will use the same variable for all characters, and if you do the latter, it will use a separate file to store the variable for each character.

[Johan1923]

well ive got

## SavedVariables: <var>

in my TOC, the thing is how do u write to it, how do u flag things to write to it?

[Shirik]

Originally Posted by Johan1923 well ive got ## SavedVariables: <var> in my TOC, the thing is how do u write to it, how do u flag things to write to it?

Assuming you've replaced <var> with whatever variable you want to write, that's all you do. During a normal shutdown, those variables will be written to a save file, and then loaded at next startup (the variables will not be available immediately upon load, but are guaranteed to be loaded before the VARIABLES_LOADED event fires).

[Seerah]

Just make sure that variable you have in your .toc is defined in your code.