Best way to store large database of things

[MrMoocow]

Okay I'm making a game, in which there are fifty cards, such as

1 - Blah - 100
2 - Moo - 300

Of course they countain meaningful messages.

Now I can't put them in an ACTUAL database, because I can't expect my end user to have it. Whats the best way I don't want to do this

Card(1) = "Blah"
CardValue(i) = 100
...

There must be a Better way.


Regards Brad,

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[MrMoocow]

Hmm, Is the Resource editors string table fast? Brad,

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[elziko]

Why can't you expect your end user to have the database? Surely any database you use can be included in your setup package?

ezliko

 

[dwunz]

Why not just use a flat text file and do a read loop to load up your arrays as part of the program initialize? Keeps the install package size down if you don't really need to include a data base.

 

[MrMoocow]

Well I found a way to quiclky (as in how I type them) define varables. And as to why I don't want to burden my end user.... Well most "gamers" don't understand why I'm addind this stuff and won't install. Brad,

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[elziko]

Surely they will HAVE to install something? And when they install that you can give them EVERY file they need!

It sounds like you think you have to install a database seperatly. Not true.

elziko

 

[harmmeijer]

add the following in the general section of a module:
Type mycard
text As String
number As Integer
End Type

I put this in the form load event to show you how to make and access the user def variable card
Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim myCardArr(1) As mycard
myCardArr(0).text = "something"
myCardArr(0).number = 3
MsgBox myCardArr(0).number
End Sub


I think dwunz has got the right idea on how to store the vars the textfile would look like so:
1, "something",3
2, "secondcard",5