chickenlips:

I'd suggest storing the high score list in a file so that when you restart the game, you still have the original values. So your subroutine to save & display high scores might be something like:

  1. Read high-score-list file
  2. Add new score, initials
  3. Sort list
  4. Display
  5. Write back new high-score-list to file

Optionally, if you want to keep only the top X scores, then after sorting, just write the first X items back to the new file. Also, to prevent a program problem from causing you to lose the entire list, write the new list to a different file. Once you're done, then you can rename the original to original.bak, and then rename the new file to the original name.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Making a dynamic high scores table by roboticus
in thread Making a dynamic high scores table by chickenlips

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