Help saveing and loading data

[OneNineTwo]

Whats the best way to save and load data that is being displayed on the hud?

Ive created a widget that shows a list of strings entered by the player on the side of the hud, but when you exit and come back its gone.

I looked into some ways other mods do it and the game uses methods like TheSim:SetPersistentString
or SavePersistentString and for components OnSave/OnLoad. But everything I've searched doesn't explain this well enough for me to implement confidently.

Can anyone lend me some help? Many thanks in advance!

Here what I've got so far.

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function nameList:GetSaveName()
	local saveName = "nameList" .. Compatibility:TheWorld().meta.seed
	if Compatibility:TheWorld():HasTag("cave") then
		saveName = saveName .. "C"
	end
	return saveName
end

function nameList:Load()
	TheSim:GetPersistentString(self:GetSameName(), function(load_success, data)
		if load_success then
			self.persistdata = json.decode(data)
		end
	end, false)
end

function nameList:Save(callback)
	local data = json.encode(self.persistdata)
	local insz, outsz = SavePersistentString(self:GetSameName(), data, ENCODE_SAVES, callback)
end

 

 

Edited February 13, 2017 by OneNineTwo