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Im still new to this DarkGDK thing, but im starting to get used to it. My question is. Is there a way to read ini files through db? What I have done is a few years ago I built a small engine (very small) in Visual Basic. It had everything you needed to create items, weapons, monsters and so on, and stored all their information inside of an ini file (texture, model, damage, stats and all that fun stuff) what im trying to do is continue to use my editor in visual basic, to load up all my stuff in dark gdk. Is this possible? If so, how do I go about doing it. Heres an example of what the ini would look like

[item1]
name="Potion"
effect="Add HP"
value="Plus50"
model="potion.x"
texture="potion.png"
[item2]
name="Bomb"
effect="DamageHP"
value="Minus50"
model="bomb.x"
texture="bomb.png"

etc.

Then, to position the objects on a level, the level is stored as.

[general]
name="Level 1"
model="level1.dbo"
[playerpositioning]
playerstartx="30"
playerstarty="getgroundheight"
playerstartz="30"
etc

Is anyone following my drift?

Take a look at the File Handling commands in the help file.
I'm sure there is no direct support for ini files but it should be fairly easy to load the file and write a parsing routine to extract and store all of the Key information. Then just write custom loaders to get your media into the engine and build your objects.

You there might still be a win32 native dll that loads INI files for ya.

Get/Write PrivateProfileString
Get/Write PrivateProfileSection

are the 4 win32api commands you can use from vb.net, to read/write win ini files, using Declare Function calls in your code