How do I get the string & bool of a value regards to saving a value?
Title explains everything. Here's my code.
local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("justatestkeyforforumnotactualcode")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
local key = "ID-"..plr.UserId
local getSaved = datastore:GetAsync(key)
local keydata1 = Instance.new("BoolValue", plr)
local keydata2 = Instance.new("StringValue", plr)
keydata1.Name = "WindforceBoughtSave"
keydata2.Name = "EquippedSwordSave"
if getSaved then
keydata1.Value = getSaved -- This is where I'm confused. This is the bool value.
keydata2.Value = plr.PlayerGui.EquippedSword.Value -- This is also where I'm confused. This is the string value.
else
local saved1 = {keydata1.Value}
local saved2 = {keydata2.Value}
datastore:SetAsync(key, saved1, saved2)
end
end)
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(plr)
local key = "ID-"..plr.UserId
local savetable1 = {plr.PlayerGui.EquippedSword.Value}
local savetable2 = {plr.PlayerGui.WindforceBought.Value}
datastore:SetAsync(key, savetable1, savetable2)
end)
So, how would I do this? I'm extremely confused at this situation. I've also read the API:Class/HttpService/GetAsync thing too.
1 answer
You need to read the DataStore manual, which will explain how to use DataStores properly. Specifically, you can only save a single value to a datastore key, but that value can be a table that contains other values. It looks like you want to save/load 2 values, a string and a bool? In that case, simply save a table where the first value is the string and the second is the bool (or vice versa) (see below). Load that table into your variable as you do on line 6 and then read from the table on lines 12 and 13 (ex for 12 you'd use getSaved[1] if the first value was the boolean).
Code to save is local saved = {keydata1.Value, keydata2.Value} and datastore:SetAsync(key, saved).