Blitz3D - BlitzMax Bank Compatibility?

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Fry Crayola (Posted 2005) [#1]

Hi, Can banks saved using Blitz3D be read by BlitzMax's LoadBank function? Cheers.

N (Posted 2005) [#2]

I don't understand.

Sarge (Posted 2005) [#3]

Yes there are possible ways. But you would need to save it as a file. Edit} You could create a blitz3d function to save a bank look in the mod folder under brl.bank might help you out

Fry Crayola (Posted 2005) [#4]

Noel - if I use CreateBank() in Blitz3D to create a memory bank for storing data, and save it to a file using WriteBytes(), is it possible to then read that created file into BlitzMax without any loss of data?

Perturbatio (Posted 2005) [#5]

test it, try writing a text file via a bank and load it with BMax and see if it's the same.

Fry Crayola (Posted 2005) [#6]

I would if I had BlitzMax...

tonyg (Posted 2005) [#7]

Yes it can. The TEST.bnk created from the WriteBytes example in B3D is loaded into BMax using the bmx Openfile example (changed to ReadBytes.

Drago (Posted 2005) [#8]

why wouldn't it really loading a file into memory is the same on all OS's you just have to make sure if the OS uses Little or Big eridan.

Fry Crayola (Posted 2005) [#9]

Cheers. I know nothing of file formats and stuff like that. I just wanted to cover my bases - my current project has a 49MB data file created which needs to be loaded into a bank, and I would like to port it to BlitzMax when it is released for Windows.