Copying Files in Ruby

[Juan J. Sánchez]

I've been coding in ruby for over a year now, and I'm usually self sufficient, but I'm really clueless right now.

I made a nice load/save scene and I suddenly thought, "Maybe I can add some preview screenshots from the moment when you last saved, that way the player can easily remember his save file and where he left the game." I had no problem with the screenshots. When the player is about to save, he creates a temporary PNG file which contains the screenshot from where he left the game. Theoretically, when he saves, the game should create a copy of the temporary file and rename it "Screenshot ##". I can't simply rename the temporary file because it prevents the game from taking screenshots, in example, of the status menu, if the player revisits the menu screen more than once before accessing the save screen. Also, we must keep in mind the player might want to save in more than one file.

I'm really helpless. If someone could tell me how to copy a file, how to save an image file (RMXP won't let me dump bitmaps, I already tried) or how to work a way around this, I'd be really grateful. Cheers.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Do you think it'd be ridiculous creating 99 temporary files? So far it's the only solution that comes to mind.

 

[Glitchfinder]

You might want to try digging into Ruby's native File class. I seem to remember it having the ability to copy/save new files, and I'm pretty sure most or all of it is still accessible in RMXP.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

But I don't have the ftools.rb library installed. Also, even if I install it, does it need to be installed in the player's computers in order for the script to work?

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Thread solved.

I instigated upon other threads that faced similar issues and figured out the best thing to do would be to copy the FileUtils.rb script directly into my project. This way, other people using RMXP won't have script issues with my game.

Here's the link:
http://s88387243.onlinehome.us/rmxp/aut ... leutils.rb

Note that other scripts, such as Wachunga's Auto Font Install script (which I find very useful), also require FileUtils.rb.

 

[FenixFyreX]

I'm pretty sure you can copy the ftools contents into the script editor. I can in rmvx, and I've done it with rmxp too. Simply open the ftools.rb in notepad, copy the contents, and paste within the editor, probably towards the top. Just remind them to get that particular script from the demo, or whatever you are doing.

EDIT: You ninja'd me :P

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

Wachunga's Auto Font Install script (which I find very useful), also require FileUtils.rb.

i never found this useful, lots of problems with vista and windows 7, but then again no one likes my solution either(i make real installers for all my games)

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

What program do you use to make the installers?

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

its a really complex setup, ive tried helping people before and it didnt go well for me but ya the program i use is inno setup.

 

[Neo-Bahamut]

I think the best possibility is just, that you copy the font inside your project directory and when the user starts the game without installing the font first you print something like "Please install the XY font. The way you have to do that is depending on your operating system. Please use google if you don't know how to do it."