[Closed] How to save spinner values

You can use a variety of functions. Here’s a quick example of one I did. It’s very basic with no error handling, but I’ve yet to come up with any issues with it:

Create a file first:

fn createIni =
(
iniFile = ((maxFilepath) + “file.txt”)
fileS = createFile iniFile
return fileS
)

then you can write values to it by doing this:

print output to: fileS
close fileS

the “output” value must be converted to a string first, by using the “as string” function:

output = output as string

Um… hope this helps! I’m by no means a great scripter, I just nut out stuff as the work requires it!

EDIT: Make sure you CLOSE the file afterwards!

Hi,

I prefer to use setINISetting and getINISetting in these cases. is saves you the need to create/open/close the file and parse it. it works very fast and needs far less checks to make sure you don’t get an error.

check out this example:

 try(destroyDialog roSaveSettings)catch()
 
 rollout roSaveSettings "Save Settings Test"
 (
 	-- Define a local variable for the INI file name.
 	-- This way, if there's a need to change the name or directory
 	-- later, you only need to change it here.
 	local INIFilename = getDir #scripts + "\	est.ini"
 
 
 	-- the user interface:
 	spinner spMin "Min.: " range:[0,100,0] type:#integer
 	spinner spMax "Max.: " range:[0,100,0] type:#integer
 
 
 	-- This function will save the settings to the INI file.
 	-- We use the INIFilename varaible defined earlier as the file name.
 	fn saveSettings =
 	(
 		-- The setINISetting function saves a setting in the format for windows INI files.
 		-- The first argument is the file name (if this file doesn't exist, setINISetting will create it).
 		-- The second argument is the category (it appears in the file in square brackets [])
 		-- The third and forth argument are the key=value set. note that the value has to be a string.
 		setINISetting INIFilename "Range" "Min" (spMin.value as string)
 		setINISetting INIFilename "Range" "Max" (spMax.value as string)
 	)
 	
 	fn loadSettings =
 	(
 		-- The getINISetting function is similar to setINISetting when it comes to argument
 		-- except, of course, for the lack of "value" (the forth argument).
 		-- It return the value as a string. If the value or the file does not exist, it returns an empty string.
 		-- Use a try()catch() pair to make sure you don't get an error if someone edited the value manually,
 		-- and the value cannot be converted to the right type (in this case an integer).
 		try(spMin.value = (getINISetting INIFilename "Range" "Min") as integer)catch()
 		try(spMax.value = (getINISetting INIFilename "Range" "Max") as integer)catch()
 	)
 
 
 
 	
 	-- Load the settings when the rollout is opened.
 	on roSaveSettings open do loadSettings()
 	
 	-- Save the settings when the rollout is closed.
 	on roSaveSettings close do saveSettings()
 )
 
 createDialog roSaveSettings
 

cheers,
o

Yep… that’s a lot nicer! Thanks ofer_z! Goes to show how much time I have to research these things!

wow ofer_z this was very helpfull thanksss!!

I didn’t know you could do this in max. Thanks ofer_z, this will save me a lot of time. vbmenu_register(“postmenu_2068280”, true);