Re: Saving lists of records to a text file
Re: Saving lists of records to a text file
- Subject: Re: Saving lists of records to a text file
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 12:36:30 +0100
JollyRoger wrote:
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> is there a way to save these lists of records to a file
>
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Must it be a text file? Do you care about the format of the file, or do you
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just simply want to be able to restore the data in your script when you need
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access to it again? If the latter is the case, consider the following:
The read/write functions in Standard Additions are supposed to allow
reading and writing of various [non-string] data types to file. Alas, IIRC
it's buggy as anthills - at least in older versions of AS.
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I use the following method to store data between loads of various plugins.
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My main script saves the data (a global property) as a resource into a prefs
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file before unloading the plugin.
If prefs files aren't desirable, or Akua Sweets isn't an option for
portability/OS X reasons, you can do the same sort of thing using script
objects and 'store script' and 'load script' from Standard Additions:
======================================================================
on storeVal(theValue, fileRef)
script
property _theValue : theValue
end script
store script result in file (fileRef as string)
end storeVal
on loadVal(fileRef)
load script file (fileRef as string)
_theValue of result
end loadVal
--TEST
set x to {{a:1, b:2, c:3}, {a:4, b:5, c:6}}
set fileRef to "bob:xVal" -- YOUR PATH HERE
storeVal(x, fileRef)
loadVal(fileRef)
--> {{a:1, b:2, c:3}, {a:4, b:5, c:6}}
======================================================================
You can, of course, have any number of properties within the script object
- this is just a simple demonstration.
HTH
has
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