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PureGDK / saving and loading data

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Hawkblood
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 06:01
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I used to use fopen() and fread()/fwrite() to save data formats. This method worked fine, but is there a better method to save/load complex data structures like custom structs?

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WLGfx
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 21:33
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If you open a file using "r" or "w" you can change that to "rb" or "wb" for binary mode and then use something like fwrite( &mystruct, sizeof(mystruct), 1, file );

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Hawkblood
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Yea. That's what I have been doing. VS2008 says:
Quote: "warning C4996: 'fopen': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using fopen_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details."

I mean, I know it's just a warning, but I want something that won't generate that and work just as good (if not better). Yes, there's fopen_s, but is there something better?

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WLGfx
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I still mainly use the Ansi C stdio.h for most of my file handling but there's also the standard C++ <fstream> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/fstream/ which is something I'll have to start using a lot more instead...

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I have a new problem. I purchased the RC4 version and it's telling me the "trial version" is expired. I tried reinstalling it, but I still get the same problem.

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If you have purchased the commercial license then you must download and install the commercial edition. There should be two downloads one for the beta RC4 and one for the commercial RC4. Get the commercial one and copy the serial code. During the setup it will ask for the serial. Once registered your RC4 should not expire.


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Hawkblood
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Posted: 10th Jul 2012 16:51 Edited at: 10th Jul 2012 16:54
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Yea. It was the gdkengine.dll that was giving me that. I had to copy the commercial version to my program's directory.

Oh, by the way, WLGfx:

I have tried the fstream approach. It's a lot of trouble if you ask me. I can't get it to save structures or classes as data types. In fact, it seems to only take character strings.....?

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WLGfx
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Yeah, I've been faffing about with streams myself over the last couple of days. In some cases they're useful but for files I still prefer stdio.h. I also still use printf() instead of cout << stuff...

Although mostly I still use fopen() instead of fopen_s() even though it's deprecated, writing out complete structures/classes is easy. You do need to make sure that you've opened the file as binary for both reading and writing.

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