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How can I create external files for saving my own data?
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Currently you can not. The devs removed the io library (or at least removed our access to it lol). What are you wanting to do that the glob table will not work for?
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Maybe I don't understand the glob table. There is so little information on it... at least nothing that is clear-cut.
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As far as I know it's a standard table except that it is saved and loaded with the game. Thus anything that you place in it is loaded when the save is.
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Do I need to do anything for the onload and onsave events?
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The glob (not global but glob) works automatically, you don't have to do anything more.

Edit: We are doing something there in the campaign scripts, because we need to avoid saving the whole story-state structure, as it contains pointer to functions, and there are problems with saving pointers to structure.

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kovarex wrote:The glob (not global but glob)
Why... oh, why... call it "glob"? Because of this name, I was SO confused as to what the hell it was referring.
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If I was making this part, I would certainly call it "global" ...

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kovarex wrote:If I was making this part, I would certainly call it "global" ...
ha ha ha ha... that's awesome. At least I know what that is now. Might be a good idea to update the Wiki. I would, but I do not know the Wiki-speak-language-thingy-script.
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metzyn wrote:
kovarex wrote:If I was making this part, I would certainly call it "global" ...
ha ha ha ha... that's awesome. At least I know what that is now. Might be a good idea to update the Wiki. I would, but I do not know the Wiki-speak-language-thingy-script.
I would prefer to rename it to global :)

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kovarex wrote:
I would prefer to rename it to global :)
Let's take a stand! Rename "glob" to "global"!
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