High Scores Board AS2

Hello everyone,
I know this is a subject that gets covered a lot as i have found a ton of tutorials that show a million dfferent ways to create a high scores board on a flash game. So i decided to go out on a limb and pick a tutorial out to try. Well I have now tried 3 different ones and have yet to get a working high scores board with my game.
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/How_to_c-Nick_Kuh-771/index.ph p
That is the link to the most recent attempts to creat my high scores board. When i finished everything the way the tutorial said it seemed like everything would work and then it just didnt. After spending oh about 40 plus hours trying to make a high scores board i am getting very frustrated. My game is scripted in AS2 and i have access to mysql and can set up unlimited databases.
Can anyone please help me by sending an easy to follow tutorial that will work with AS2? I would just like any kind of help right now as I feel ALL of my valid ideas have been ehausted. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
kapelskic

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Flash Game High Scores Board

Hello everyone,
I know this is a subject that gets covered a lot as i have found a ton of tutorials that show a million dfferent ways to create a high scores board on a flash game. So i decided to go out on a limb and pick a tutorial out to try. Well I have now tried 3 different ones and have yet to get a working high scores board with my game.
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Games/How_to_c-Nick_Kuh-771/index.php
That is the link to the most recent attempts to creat my high scores board. When i finished everything the way the tutorial said it seemed like everything would work and then it just didnt. After spending oh about 40 plus hours trying to make a high scores board i am getting very frustrated. My game is scripted in AS2 and i have access to mysql and can set up unlimited databases.
Can anyone please help me by sending an easy to follow tutorial that will work with AS2? I would just like any kind of help right now as I feel ALL of my valid ideas have been ehausted. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
kapelskic

Okay not a problem.
This is my code on the very first frame of the game that initializes the the highscores.php script
command = "init";
_root.loadVariables("highscores.php?"+int(Math.random()*100000), "POST");
This is the code that I have on a submit button, next to the input text box where the user enters their name for the scoreboard.
on (release) {
if(name ne ""){
command = "update";
_root.loadVariables("highscores.php?"+int(Math.random()*100000), "POST");
gotoAndStop ("highScores");
In every place the code says _root. I have also tried this. and neither of them work. I have also tried a million other things. So far the game plays through, goes to the game over screen where it asks for a user name and tells them their score. Then once they press submit the game goes to the highScores screen but the name and score are not there. The high scores screen cosists of 2 dynamic text fields one named "players" and one named "scores". I hope this helps because I spent another 5 or so hours after my initial posts trying more tutorials with still no luck. (the problem i am having is that i am new to flash, however not to PHP)
kapelskic

Score board for a game show

Hi all, Ok here goes.
I need to create a score board for a game show at work for staff. The score board must keep score on the left and right parts of the screen. score must start as default on 0. Then every time I press for example the left arrow key the left score must increase by the value of 1 and when I press the right arrow key the left score must decrease by 1.
Same goes for the right score only with differant keys example up and down keys. This sounds very simple and I managed to get it to work when I tested with only 1 score, but failed when adding the second score to the picture.
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That is AS2 code so you should repost your problem in the AS1/2 forum if you continue to have a problem. You should try making the other score work again and show the code you are using that is not working.
Since you have little familiarity with coding, you will do best to not approach coding the way you are. Putting code "on()" objects is not a good practice. You should place all the code in the timeline and assign instance names to objects to enable the timeline code to target the objects.
If you have a button in place merely to support having the code for keyboard interaction processing, then you should do away with that and just have code assigned to deal with the keyboard specifically. Here's some code that might get you started... if you cannot get it working for you, then please repost your problem in the correct forum. The code goes in the timeline. Instead of the traces, you would be changing the score values...
var keyListener:Object = new Object();
Key.addListener(keyListener);
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   if(Key.getCode() == 38) trace("up");
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   if(Key.getCode() == 39) trace("right");

High score functionality via call to external server

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How to manage high score file

Hello,
I have made i little game in CVI, in the end of the game user get a score base on the levels he passed and the level of difficulty.
As this is a school assignment i have to have a score board. I've made score board using a table and i read arguments from a txt file.
All I read is the name of the player and his score.
The trouble that I'm having is to check the txt file and see if the new score of the user can be put in the score board.
I need to known how I check if user's new score need to be put into the score txt file, and how to put it there.
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Hello Slavik87!
If I understand your question correctly, want to are asking is how to read the text file, retrieve the highest scores from it and update the file again.
If you are asking about which functions to use, these are some functions you can use to perform the file operations:
fopen, to open the file
fputs, to write a string to the file
fgets, to get a string from the file
fseek, to navigate through the file
fclose, to close the file
Here are some suggestions about how you can manage the information in your text file:
Insert each new entry (name, score) on a separate new row, optionally using separators:
John Doe, 10
Kelly Smith, 43
Kevin Brown, 4
After reading these lines from disk, you would have to store the entries in some data structures (e.g. lists, structures) for your application to manage.
For optimization, you can also sort the rows based on the highest score, this way, when you want to retrieve the highest scores, these are already situated at the beginning of the file. However, when you update the rows, you would have to switch places of rows, when a person will have a higher score than the previous item(s).
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Keynote score board with feeds?

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im working on a project where im going to project a keynote presentation that includes a few things to make a score board. Basicly i want it to have live feed from my webcam, a timer that counts down and 2 small boxes to keep the score for that team.
Now i have finaly managed to get live feed from my camera using quartz composer. Now for the count down i have no idea, but that is the least of my problems. I need to be able to upadate a table with the scors for each team without taking the presentation down. So i was thinking, if i make an rss feed of an exel table, (Whitch i can do no problem) i could rss feed it into the keynot... but i tryed quarts composer and it doesnt work, any ideas on how i can get it to work, or how i can do it another way?
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That is AS2 code so you should repost your problem in the AS1/2 forum if you continue to have a problem. You should try making the other score work again and show the code you are using that is not working.
Since you have little familiarity with coding, you will do best to not approach coding the way you are. Putting code "on()" objects is not a good practice. You should place all the code in the timeline and assign instance names to objects to enable the timeline code to target the objects.
If you have a button in place merely to support having the code for keyboard interaction processing, then you should do away with that and just have code assigned to deal with the keyboard specifically. Here's some code that might get you started... if you cannot get it working for you, then please repost your problem in the correct forum. The code goes in the timeline. Instead of the traces, you would be changing the score values...
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Key.addListener(keyListener);
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   if(Key.getCode() == 40) trace("down");
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Priya

Scoreboard is the generic phrase; scorecard is the technical phrase.
This is "THE" word in performance measurment / evaluation.
Organizations will plan for 3-5 years and decide where it wants to be in terms of sales, profit, customer sartisfaction, etc. They give a target values for such parameters. As the time proigresses, the actuals will be measured aganist the standards and the resut will be displayed in the scorecard in the form of scores.
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Good Practice for managing player high scores & other stats

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file types, data types to be used in the file, file protection from manual editing etc.
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During PC based game development, what is a good practice for saving high scores, game history etc for multiple users in terms of the following attributes :
file types, data types to be used in the file, file protection from manual editing etc.
pls throw some advice on the popular industry practice in use.
regards, bittu ch

High Score with Applets

Well, I'm currently in a 'gaming club' at my high school. We are a small group of about 10-12 people that enjoy playing and designing games. Recent accomplishments consist of Battleship, Snake, Airhockey, and a few other minor 3D games.
As of late, we wanted to take it to the next level. We'd like to put these games on a website in applet-form for everyone to enjoy and comment on. To do this, we'd like to implement a high score count to see who is the best at these games. However, when we tried to do this we ran into a security error. Aparently applets can't write to files. Is there any way around this? Any help would be greatly appriciated. Much thanks.
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Set up a php database. You can communicate between it and your Applet. That's how I do it on GameLizard.com

Help with online high scores

I'm working on a marathon runner game ( http://www.locopuyo.com/MarathonRunnerBeta1.zip ) just for the fun of it. What I am wondering is what the best way to make a high scores list would be.
I have mySQL on my server, I don't know if that is the best way to do it though.
I don't know at all how to connect files on the internet with java.
I was thinking it might be easier if I just had a plain html web site that I could edit in my java program using ftp, but I don't know how to do that and dont' even know if it is possible.
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All you need in Java to query this script is the URL class.
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Hello there,
I have some code which fills a high scores table.. we've decided to give away a prize to the top ten people in the high scores table.. the problem is that people are playing repeatedly and fillnig the high scores table with their name, this makes it unfair to other players as they can't manage to get onto the table !!
Is there a way I can modify my code to ignore the same name should it appear and skip to the next non repeated name(pseudo) and score ??
My text boxes are called pseudo1 - pseudo10 and score1 - score10
Many thanks in advance for your help below is my code :-
for (var p:uint = 1; p <= 10; p++) {
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I find using Dictionary class for filtering unique names very useful. The code below shows that. Note how array is sorted in descending order:
var scores:Array = [];
scores.push( { name: "Peter Smith", score: 32 } );
scores.push( { name: "Amanda Smith", score: 112 } );
scores.push( { name: "Peter Smith", score: 23 } );
scores.push( { name: "Jerry Pak", score: 45 } );
scores.push( { name: "Peter Smith", score: 80 } );
scores.push( { name: "Martin", score: 78 } );
scores.push( { name: "Andrei", score: 99 } );
scores.push( { name: "Andrei", score: 65 } );
scores.push( { name: "Martin", score: 76 } );
scores.push( { name: "Amanda", score: 10 } );
scores.push( { name: "Peter Smith", score: 73 } );
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