GML Saving And Loading Help

[derp556]

Hi! I'm a bit inexperienced with saving and loading things, the tutorials online i watch and do 100% as they do, but the game acts like i did nothing after writing the code (No errors, but nothing in the console or noticeable changes) Can someone help me, i just need something that can save variables (After Closing and re-opening) and that is about it

 

[Ukaygee]

Try this for saving a variable:

ini_open("savedata.ini");
ini_write_real("save","score",score);
ini_close();

To read the file, try:

ini_open("savedata.ini");
score = ini_read_real("save","score",0);
ini_close();

You can read more about ini files here

 

[derp556]

It works, but how would i go about saving global variables? Instead of score

 

[NeoShade]

Exactly the same way...

ini_open("savedata.ini");
ini_write_real("save", "score", global.myscore);
ini_close();

 

[Pfap]

I had a pretty silly mistake when I first started using the ini save functions. I would write some save data like this:

ini_write_real("Save", "Player", global.signed_up);

The above saves the value of global.signed_up under "Player" in my ini file.
But then would try to load or read it like this:

 ini_read_real("Save", "Player", global.signed_up);

the third argument to the above function is a default and I can't remember what the exact issue was, but for some reason it was setting it back to my original empty string (even though I assumed there was data under "player".

This is what it should have been:

sign_save = ini_read_real("Save", "Player", 0);
global.signed_up = sign_save;

This reads the value saved under "Player" into my variable sign_save.