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You are answering to Dave O'Brien who wrote:

Hi there,

Just changed my Sweeper game to save games to a data file rather than to preferences. Much faster now. Thanks for the tip.

However, it took me 3 hours instead of the 15 minutes I expected, because of three items I didn't fully understand from reading the iziBasic docs:

FILEEXISTS - Wasn't sure if this command needed a fully qualified file name (e.g. "SweeperData.pdb") or just the root name as used by the other file commands (e.g. "SweeperData"). I eventually figured out that it just wanted the root, but this would be a good note to add to the docs under that command (just like it's mentioned for other file commands). No biggie, this one.

{SECUREFILES ON|OFF} - Not sure I understood the docs for this one. If this is ON, does that mean that my code can only write to a file with creatorID = LDIB? Seems like it should allow my own creatorID too. Otherwise, it's very restrictive and perhaps shouldn't default to ON. I eventually turned it off, but still not sure how it works because I finally figured out the last issue (below).

OPEN "foobar" FOR OUTPUT AS #400 - This statement compiles, but does not work. I suspect it's because the number must be 1-255, but the docs omit the allowed range. I initially chose 400 because I wasn't sure if this number would collide with other controls and resources. Once I changed this to #1, everything worked fine. Is it OK to use #1 for a control AND a file?

All's well that ends well, but perhaps a few doc tweaks would save time for the next adventurous soul. ;^)

BTW, this kind of stuff would be good material for a FAQ on the wiki site. Since I'm the one complaining, I'll shut up now and add it. ;^D

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