Tiny DB save game

[Rick_Wheeler]

Hello.

I have a bingo style game that can’t be completed in one day. I want to be able to have users go back next time they open the app to where they left off. Is there a good tiny dB tutorial someone could point me to.

Thanks,

Rick

[Taifun]

TinyDB tutorial by Stephen
protip: use the search feature of the community to do a search yourself…

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There is a free programming course here http://www.appinventor.org/content/CourseInABox/Intro and the aia files for the projects in the book are here: http://www.appinventor.org/bookFiles
How to do a lot of basic things with App Inventor are described here: http://www.appinventor.org/content/howDoYou/eventHandling .

Also do the tutorials http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/tutorials.html to learn the basics of App Inventor, then try something and follow the Top 5 Tips: How to learn App Inventor

Taifun

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[Rick_Wheeler]

I know the basics. I just need to learn how to save a game card on tiny db. The tutorials on how to use tiny db don’t apply to what i;m doing.

[Anke]

@Rick_Wheeler

I want to be able to have users go back next time they open the app to where they left off.

Please clarify that in more detail. And show what you've tried so far, so the (relevant) blocks ...

[Italo]

@Rick_Wheeler

The tutorials on how to use tiny db don’t apply to what i;m doing

There's a very small chance that you will find the exact tutorial for exactly the same thing you are doing. TinyDB basically do 2 things: Save a value in a tag and retrieve it. So there's not much to it. Have you tried something? Why it didn't work?
Maybe you can save in a tag a list of lists with the numbers and a true or false value next to it depending if the user has that number checked or not?

[Rick_Wheeler]

I know this is not right. It’s the best I could take from another tutorial.

[Italo]

So I guess each number is a button? And if it has the redmark.png image in it then it means the user has than number checked. Right?

[Rick_Wheeler]

Correct each image is a button that turns to a redmark when pushed.

[Italo]

Then you can save in a tag named Button1 the image you have in button 1.
When you have to read back what button one should have, just set button 1 image to whatever is in the tag button 1.
And so on for all the buttons.

[Rick_Wheeler]

Thank you. You’re awesome. I owe you a beer

[Italo]

Make it a Coke Zero.

[Rick_Wheeler]

I did this but I can’t test it in the companion. How would I test this to see if it works before I do the rest?

[Italo]

You said up there you know how TinyDB works but by what you are showing, I don’t think that’s the case.

Do this to save Button 1 state.

And this to retrieve it:

[Rick_Wheeler]

Italo,

I’m sorry if I misspoke. I understand basic coding. I didn’t know anything about tiny dB. Your solution works perfectly. Thank you. I owe you a Coke Zero.