I’m now working on porting a game called “Global Destruction” to my BBS
software. The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile full of
text (it’s about 107k worth of text…)
In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records and
read it from the disk as I needed it.
Should i just marshall this, or what? My instincts are to read it as I need
it… but my instincts don’t work right in this language…
Thanks for the advice…
Mark
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Monday, September 23, 2002, 12:39:25 PM, you wrote:
I’m now working on porting a game called “Global Destruction” to my BBS
software. The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile full of
text (it’s about 107k worth of text…)
In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records and
read it from the disk as I needed it.
I’m now working on porting a game called “Global Destruction” to my BBS
software. The way this game is written (in C++) it has a datafile full of
text (it’s about 107k worth of text…)
In my old language of Pascal, I would make this into a File of Records and
read it from the disk as I needed it.
Should i just marshall this, or what? My instincts are to read it as I
need
it… but my instincts don’t work right in this language…
I’d think it would be acceptable to put the
data after END and use DATA to read it.
As for reading it “as needed”: That made
sense 20 years ago. But it’s only 107K.
That’s what, 1/5000th of your PC’s RAM?
I’d say: Put it in an array and forget it.
Hal
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From: “Firestone, Mark - Technical Support” mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:39 AM
Subject: Yet Another “Thickie” question from Mark
