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ZenMasterJG · Feb 19th, 2005, 3:29 AM

your program definatly can extract the info from a text file like this (check out class StreamTokenizer)
Text files are inefficient, however, and i dont particularly like how just anyone can go and mess around with them. Another possibility would be to create a class to store the information, save the data as objects to a file, and load it at start.

Your class would probably look somthing like:

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public class SpriteData implements Serializable {
     private int pic, goto, wait, dx, dy, ifkeya, ifkeyb, ifkeyc;
     //etc, etc, etc
}

And then when you start the program you could load all of these objects onto a Vector or somthing, for easy access.
(For writing/reading objects to a file, check out class ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream)

Feb 19th, 2005, 3:29 AM	#2
ZenMasterJG Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 148 Rep Power: 4	your program definatly can extract the info from a text file like this (check out class StreamTokenizer) Text files are inefficient, however, and i dont particularly like how just anyone can go and mess around with them. Another possibility would be to create a class to store the information, save the data as objects to a file, and load it at start. Your class would probably look somthing like: (Toggle Plain Text) public class SpriteData implements Serializable { private int pic, goto, wait, dx, dy, ifkeya, ifkeyb, ifkeyc; //etc, etc, etc } public class SpriteData implements Serializable { private int pic, goto, wait, dx, dy, ifkeya, ifkeyb, ifkeyc; //etc, etc, etc } And then when you start the program you could load all of these objects onto a Vector or somthing, for easy access. (For writing/reading objects to a file, check out class ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream) Last edited by ZenMasterJG; Feb 19th, 2005 at 3:30 AM. Reason: Screwed up my code tags. Damn you nyquil.