problem with saving high score name on GE

[frodo]

plinydogg,
in create actor I do:

strcpy(name.text,save);

Then in Game mode, My actor isn't there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's like there isn't anything is the variable "save"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[plinydogg]

Well actually, you're probably more right than you know....there isn't anything there!

First, make sure that you load the high score name variable at some point (I usually do it when the game first starts). In the following example replace "game.sav" with whatever you've named the file and replace "save group" with whatever group you've saved you high score name variable in:

loadVars("game.sav", "save group");

The first time you load the high score name variable and try to display it, it's not going to display anything. Why? Because you haven't saved any name in the variable yet (in other words, the actor looks like it has disappeared because it's as if the actor is displaying an empty string: "").

Saving a name in the variable is a two-step process:

(1) copy a name into the variable. And don't forget to use strcpy() instead of trying to assign the name like you would assign a number to a variable!

(2) use the saveVars() function exactly like you used the loadVars() function above.

When all of this is done, it should work (assuming everything else is in order). Hope I've been detailed enough.

[frodo]

it still dosn't work.

[plinydogg]

I've been trying to think of other solutions but I haven't been able to so far............

[frodo]

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