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Duffer
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Posted: 4th Apr 2003 23:48
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I'm developing various file formats for things like Matrices, 3d objects, particles, sounds and lights and environments etc and within the programs I've got some fairly large and convoluted type variables...

Stupid eg. TYPE Tp_3dOject
Name AS STRING
XPos AS FLOAT
etc etc
ENDTYPE

Do I really have the break all the data from these Type variables down into a Memblock to be able to write to a file? Or could I write them in as an array eg. ABC(0) AS Tp_3dObject? :-s

Or to put it another way, what's the best way of saving out your own file formats??? Anyone? :-s
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Duffer
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Posted: 4th Apr 2003 23:50
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Sorry, being half awake I have posted this in the wrong forum...!

I will wake up soon.

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actarus
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Posted: 5th Apr 2003 02:26
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hehe Like in 'Dune',you will awake

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour!
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 5th Apr 2003 02:47
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yeah wrong forum... and the short answer is no you can't use type casting for writing values

you have to write a function that reads each value and writes it into the file, oftenly svaing is a specific setup anyways - so this shouldn't matter, especially as speed isn't really of the essience when you do save

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