Opening An External .txt File In Game Topic

322

05/01/2021 07:06 PM

So in my game, there's a help option that you can access off the menu. I want it to open an external .txt file using a script call or some method in game. I used to know how to do this, but I've forgotten the exact script call that you needed to do it, I don't remember needing a script but if you did can someone please tell me how or what to do?

coelocanth

5448

05/03/2021 09:41 PM

If you check the help file, under the ruby standard library, there are functions to deal with files.

You're probably looking for this:

open(path, mode) do |f|
   f.each_line do |line|
      # do something with the line here
   end
end

Marrend

Guardian of the Description Thread

21806

05/04/2021 03:13 PM

I thought this was asking about opening a TXT file with an external program, such as Notepad, or whatever. Which I think is possible, I just don't remember what the code was. I think one of the horror games I played/reviewed had files open in NotePad, but, I cannot remember for the life of me which one it was. I wonder if GreatRedSpirit might know?

*Edit: However, if you're looking to read/write to a TXT file, coelocanth's script should suffice.

coelocanth

5448

05/04/2021 11:34 PM

If that's the case, you might need to use the ruby Win32API binding to call a windows function to launch another program.

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