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Dark GDK / Reading/Writing a file

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Mister Fuzzy
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2012 01:21
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Just a quick question: After reading or writing a byte of info, does the file automatically skip to the next byte or do I have to insert dbSkipBytes to do this manually?

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DeadTomGC
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2012 22:25
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It skips automatically. Remember, you can always test things like this by writing a custom file and then reading it.


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Mister Fuzzy
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Posted: 9th Jul 2012 22:10
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Yeah, I could've, but I was nowhere near a computer with DGDK when I posted this...

And did I miss something, or are the file commands broken? With the code
only results in an empty file! Is my DGDK broken?

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WLGfx
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Posted: 10th Jul 2012 15:18
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You would be much better off using stdio.h or (I don't know yet) fstream. At least in stdio you can use binary files using "rb" for read binary or "wb" for write binary. They also allow for formatted output using the fprintf()...

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Hawkblood
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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 16:12
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Yes. stdio.h is overall the best way to load/save info. You can even use it with data structures/classes. The db file functions are limited in their data types.

Here's a link if you need to read up on it:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/fopen/

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 12th Jul 2012 18:15
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I agree that you probably want to use one of the C++ standard file managing libraries, however to answer your question dbMakeFile creates an empty file and dbOpenToWrite will also create a new file, failing if the provided file name already exists. In other words you don't want to use dbMakeFile there.


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