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Hi, I'm having trouble getting my head round this.

I have a task takes a certain amount of time and I have managed to express this time as a variable. Each time this task is complete I want to judge this time against previous times and tell the participant how they have done.

I think that to just store the best time of the day, and report each time someone beat it, would be quite simple, but to store say the top 10, and then make each one of those move down a place as a new top score is gained, is much harder. Is there a way to do this? I have not yet tried any scripting and wouldn't know where to start. Would I need to use a data base?

Cheers

RB

Yes a database is a simple (relatively speaking & excuse the pun) way of achieving this.

You'd simply write the game score to the corresponding fields (such as player name, score, date) and then read back the information into your table which would be an array(s).

By reading back the information from a query not a table you can run filters and sorts from the DB before the data gets to Opus.

See the tutorials section for the beginners guide to databases.

Mack

Thanks Mack,

I've never ventured into databases before, but I guess when needs must...

many thanks for the answer.

RB