Save game as file about chessmarkable HOT 5 CLOSED

Cool. I'll look to do this next week.

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I just tried it on my reMarkable 2 and it works pretty good.

Thanks for all the hard work and your contributions to the open source community ❤️

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Hi,

this is a pretty interesting feature.

Given that the game just draws on a game, having dynamic content (which could e.g. require the user to scroll) is hard to implement since I don't use any UI toolkit.

An idea that would work, would be to have like 3 Slots to save and restore from. One could save to any of the 3 slots mid-game through the button you mentioned, and the main menu would have a selection of the starting board. The user could there choose to not start the game from scratch, but from the selected slot.

Does this sound good?

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You're right. I haven't thought about the need of a scrollable list.

I like the idea of having slots. That should work for the time being.

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Got to do the feature today.

I have though a lot about how to make the feature as intuitive as possible while also not changing to many things in the UI.

After selecting a game mode in the main menu, a user has now to choose to either continue on a slot or start over on it. The slot will be remembered and the game saved to it when quitting (renamed the "Main Menu" button to "Save & Quit").

When there is no savestate for a slot, the "Continue on" button will act like the "Start over on" button. This is a technical difficulty I didn't want to tackle today. Maybe I'll remove this limitation once I implement a proper button.

The savestates are saved to /home/root/.config/chessmarkable/savestates.yml by default.

How do you find it. If it's good, I can release a new version with it.

Here is a binary with the newest changes. Just tranfer the unzipped binary onto the device and run it with ./chessmarkable (on rM2: rm2fb-client ./chessmarkable).

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