[Scummvm-devel] Savefiles question

[Johannes Schickel]

On 07/04/2012 12:05 PM, Einar Johan Trøan Sømåen wrote:
> As for your question, a recording would require that SPECIFIC savegame 
> to be loaded anyway, which means that
> the savegame should really be part of the recording (as if it is 
> replaced, the recording would be invalid). What you would
> need in that case, is an interface that allows you to stream that 
> savegame into the engine on load.
>

It is true, that with the current save system this is not easily 
possible, since the engine API works on slot numbers.

> AFAIK, the Launcher only knows about slots when loading anyhow, which 
> means that the filename that was stored is
> identified by the slot anyhow, with an engine-dependent filename-scheme.
>

Yes, the save and load dialog purely works on the slot numbers. The 
engine does all the (virtual) filename creation based on the slot.

// Johannes