Editing .rvdata?

[Mechz]

I'm sorry for creating two topics in such a small amount of time. :0

But something's been bugging me about .rvdata--- particularly, is there a way to edit it? It doesn't seem like it would be illegal to do so. I imagine putting custom data into a .rvdata file would make it unreadable to the the visual database editor, but I don't think that would effect the the way RMVX compiles the program.

 

[Mechz]

Bump

opening the rvdata with simple editor like notepad does nothing but bring up the variable names in between an incoherent mess of what I believe to be the variable data, which are strange ascii(?) symbols.

I thought "Hey, Japanese program == Japanese encoding?" so I opened it with three different Japanese text editors... Same thing. :/

This makes me wonder: Why do we have rvdata instead of a plain old text file? .rvdata doesn't seem to do anything but hold... data. The visual editor wouldn't recognize an edited file, but I don't think people would be editing the files unless they didn't need the visual editor.

 

[Yeyinde]

.rvdata, and even .rxdata is just a collection of Ruby objects serialized via the Marshal module.  So, anyone with Ruby can edit .r(x/v)data files.

 

[Mechz]

Aye, that makes sense... So I installed Ruby, but I still can't make sense of what the file is giving me:

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/480/rvdatadc0.th.jpg[/img]

...o'_'o

 

[Yeyinde]

...
You just opened up the serialized data in a text editor.  You need to make Ruby load up the data with Marshal.load(filePath).  This will make Ruby load the data into memory so it can do things with it.