Text Question.

[Jay S.]

I tried searching the forum for my answer, but I couldn't find exactly what I needed. And so, here goes:

I know how to read text from a file, but how would I go about selecting which line in the text file I wanted to display in GE? For example, if I wrote a text file with dialogue for some NPCs in a game, how would I choose which line I want to display, corresponding to each NPC?

Sorry if this has been asked a number of times before, but I could use the aid. Thanks!

[DilloDude]

The simplest way would probably be to read all the texts into an array. Then you can select one string from the array.

[Jay S.]

Okay, so... how would I do this? (Don't worry, it's my goal to learn C better...)

[Sgt. Sparky]

I will make a line counting and selecting function, just a minute, I must do some stuff real quick.

[Jay S.]

Sparky....

Anything yet?

[Sgt. Sparky]

Sparky....

Anything yet?

sorry,
I will work on that now or soon,
I had to get off the computer.

[Jay S.]

sorry,
I will work on that now or soon,
I had to get off the computer.

Oh, don't worry about it. I'd just like to know how to do this so I can know how to plan my project...

[Sgt. Sparky]

sorry,
I will work on that now or soon,
I had to get off the computer.

Oh, don't worry about it. I'd just like to know how to do this so I can know how to plan my project...

do you want it to count lines or copy a selected line?

[Sgt. Sparky]

http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 1064#21064

[Jay S.]

Nevermind, I found another way to do it, I got it to work!!!!!!! I used the standard code to read from a text file (found in the GE documentation for fopen), and then I used this:

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int n = 0;//number here corrisponds to which line is being read!)
strcpy(actor.text, textArray[n]);

I didn't know what that did. Sorry...

[Sgt. Sparky]

Nevermind, I found another way to do it, I got it to work!!!!!!! I used the standard code to read from a text file (found in the GE documentation for fopen), and then I used this:

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int n = 0;//number here corrisponds to which line is being read!)
strcpy(actor.text, textArray[n]);

I didn't know what that did. Sorry...

just use my code, it works perfectly.
(yours does not work because it is just copying one part of the array. )
but your code will not work because to copy one part of the array you must use,
strcpy(actor.text, &textArray[n]);
only if textArray is a declared text array.

[Jay S.]

just use my code, it works perfectly.

No, it doesn't.

When I tried using it in the Global Code, I got this error message:

Error line 18: undeclared identifier temp
Error line 19: undeclared identifier temp

(yours does not work because it is just copying one part of the array. )
but your code will not work because to copy one part of the array you must use,
strcpy(actor.text, &textArray[n]);
only if textArray is a declared text array.

I have NO idea what you're talking about.

[Sgt. Sparky]

just use my code, it works perfectly.

No, it doesn't.

When I tried using it in the Global Code, I got this error message:

Error line 18: undeclared identifier temp
Error line 19: undeclared identifier temp

(yours does not work because it is just copying one part of the array. )
but your code will not work because to copy one part of the array you must use,
strcpy(actor.text, &textArray[n]);
only if textArray is a declared text array.

I have NO idea what you're talking about.

you must make a string that is an actor variable called temp.

[Jay S.]

Thanks, Sparky, that's a very useful code; but unless I'm missing something, I'm afraid to say that it's not quite what I'm looking for.

I'm not looking to copy another actor's text, I'm looking to copy text from a external text file and use it as dialogue. But, up to this point, I might not end up using this, because I realized I wouldn't be able to use the n\ to break lines. In my project, it would be RPG-style text, and that would be invaluable...

I didn't want to use script to not use so much of it for performance sake, so I could just try to make my own functions to try to simplify it...

Sorry I'm such a pest.

[Sgt. Sparky]

Thanks, Sparky, that's a very useful code; but unless I'm missing something, I'm afraid to say that it's not quite what I'm looking for.

I'm not looking to copy another actor's text, I'm looking to copy text from a external text file and use it as dialogue. But, up to this point, I might not end up using this, because I realized I wouldn't be able to use the n\ to break lines. In my project, it would be RPG-style text, and that would be invaluable...

I didn't want to use script to not use so much of it for performance sake, so I could just try to make my own functions to try to simplify it...

Sorry I'm such a pest.

oooh,

I thought you ment to copy a specefied line. xD
make a string called temp.
then:
just use this for reading your text file from a normal external text file,

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FILE*txt;
txt = fopen("yourtextfilename.txt", "r+");
fread(&temp, sizeof(txt), 1, txt);
fclose(txt);
strcpy(yourtextactor.text, temp); 

that should work, let me test it.