Read/Write Text Files

I was wondering if there was any way to read or write to a TEXT file... Although Sanny says that the opcode for read/writing can write to a text file, it writes to the file in binary format (for some reason).

Yet somehow a few clever people have managed to write plain text files (using hex, I think?)...

Basically I want to give the user to enter something into a file and the game to be able to read it.

Then I want to be able to make the game write something (say, coordinates) to a readable text file.



If that's not possible, I wanna be able to do it in a CLEO Script. Which would require starting the script, getting the pointer, reading the right part (right?)... But I'm not sure how to do it for a seperate script.


I'm working on a advanced debugging script (not one of those simple ones, either )

I have been in Saint Petersburg, so sorry for the late reply. Yes, it's possible. And very easy, all is needed is to use the opcode to create this file, and the read the direct data from it. Would you explain what the actual problem is with creating it?

It's because when you tried, the text was in machine-language, and not readable by people?

Then I want to be able to make the game write something (say, coordinates) to a readable text file.

Easy. But while we are speaking of such thing in the SA Memory Topic, I posted a code, this code will work in main.scm (MPACK included), you can create a file named "playercoords.txt" in SA dir, put coords in it it does not matter if you use comma's (,) or dots (.) between the XYZ it will still work, press F5 in-game, and CJ will be teleported to this coords that you put in the file. I.e. a user can open this file and change the coords to what they want to.

Code:


:SetNewCoords
hex
 B8 B0 D7 5B 00 FF D0 C3 // C3 - ret
end


* Code sets the coords

Code:


:MovePlayer
0@ = -429863
1@ = 304497
while true
    wait 250
    &0(1@,1i) == 0xFF
    jf continue
    &0(0@,1i) = 0xA49960
    &0(0@,1i) += @_SetNewCoords
    0572: run_asm_inject true
end // while
:_SetNewCoords
hex
 B8 B0 D7 5B 00 FF D0 C3
end


For main.scm (uses ASM injector)

Code:


1@ = 304497


* Index of keys - http://sannybuilder.com/dev/keycodes.htm

P.S. In the Memory Topic, I posted a code which opens a custom IMG-files and reads the models inside of this file, maybe that will also help you.

Code:


const
 FILE = 1@
 FILE_PATH = "data/mytestfile.txt" 
end

....

if
    0A9A: FILE = openfile FILE_PATH mode 0x77  // "write text"
then
 // text file with the name "mytestfile.txt" will be created in the SA/data dir
    .....
    // write data to the TXT-file
end


File options

Code:


0x6272 – opens binary file for reading
0x72  – opens text file for reading
0x6277 – opens binary file for writing
0x77  – opens text file for writing


You're a genius...

I wish I could test it out... But I'm inable to use my videocard :/

Thanks, anyway.