High Score Table

[tzkennedy]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Autoplay (I've used it in a basic way for some time, but just getting my feet wet with variables etc). I've managed to cobble together a basic quiz type application, and would like to build in some kind of high score table, or stats section, for example so a user can see how they've done on previous tests and try to beat old scores.

My questions are 1) what functions do I need to use to allow a user to enter their name and store this as a variable (sorry if these are basic questions), and 2) how can I get autoplay to store/access players' results when the app. is running from a CD, and what are the basic commands I'll need to master in order to do this?

Many thanks, I look forward to enlightenment!

TzK.

[Derek]

Hi tzkennedy,

You can use Dialog.Input for the user to enter their name. You can find out more about this in the examples given in the online help. This help file is also available by pressing F1 from the AMS5 GUI

As for storing the info for a 'high scores' table - there are couple ways you can do that. You could write the data to a text file and store this on the users HDD, then just recall the data from the file at runtime with TextFile.ReadToTable etc. but the most obvious way is by storing the info in the registry. You could store the info in HKEY_USERS by making a key under the name of the user and store all their scores/dates etc:
Registry.SetValue(HKEY_USERS, "My Application", "UserName", "My Data", REG_SZ);

You can find out more about this, again, in the online help.

Hope this helps

[tzkennedy]

Derek,

Thanks for your amazingly fast reply!

Can I check, does your advice hold for AMS v4 (which I'm using)? I can't find a Dialog.Input option. If not, is there a way around this?

Thanks,

TzK.