Saving

[fathom crow]

I have several checkbuttons and need their toggle states to persist after closing the app, without explicitly having a save/load button. What's the easiest way to achieve this?

[feral knoll]

Save to disk: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/io/saving_games.html

And instead of an explicit "save button", just make a save() function and call it after every checkbutton change, etc.

[fathom crow]

Does that work if i'm making something specifically for android?

res://saving_test.gd:3 - Parse Error: Function "get_tree()" not found in base self.

Also I'm getting this error

[feral knoll]

Should work fine yes, just make sure you use the user:// directory. You can read more on the dir stuff here.

[fathom crow]

`Thanks.

So for making the dictionary, what would I put as the value? Would I make a toggled signal, then put a var in there?

[feral knoll]

the value of the whatever thing you are storing..

if its a check/unchecked button, that sounds like a bool to me

[fathom crow]

but how do i pass the bool into the save function

[feral knoll]

You could create a dictionary with your values (like a bunch of bools) in there

check the saving tutorial, the first part is Serializing

going from a collection of variables into a single dictionary

instead of stuff like damage and attack, you'll be storing your bools

[fathom crow]

        
    var save_dict = {
        "filename" : get_scene_file_path(),
        "parent" : get_parent().get_path(),
        "alda1" : _on_savetest_toggled(1),
    }
    return save_dict
    ```
... is this right

[feral knoll]

If those are the things you want to save, yes

[fathom crow]

But with it being _on_savetest_toggled(1) wouldn't it just save it as always being on then instead of on/off

[feral knoll]

I have no idea what your _on_savetest_toggled() is, I figured it's just a test function.

Normally when it comes to vars & bools, you'd have something like this: var my_bool : bool = false
And later somekind of function to set it to the actual value instead of the default false, something like this: my_bool = #whatever your function/code/logic is

And then in your saving dictionary, you can do:
"amazing" : my_bool