Making component save its data

[memcallen]

How do I make my component save its data? It can hold data but after a re-log its variable are back to their defaults.

[Arkathorn]

Component persistent data functions are as follows:

function ComponentName:OnSave()
	--Return a table containing data that you want to be persistent
	--For example:
	local data = {}
	data.someinfo = self.someinfo
	return data
end

function ComponentName:OnLoad(data)
	--The 'data' parameter is the table that you returned from 'OnSave'
	--Load your data back here
	--For example:
	if data.someinfo then
		self.someinfo = data.someinfo
	end
end

 

[Mobbstar]

@memcallen The above code should suffice for most situations. If you need to, you can use Pre-Load and Load-Post-Init as well, but they behave slightly different. Ideally refer to existing components for that.