BCIRPG Menu

The following changes done here:
1. Stripped down to the main menu, and that pushed as erpg\Godot\MainMenu\GodotUserInterface_Doug bcirpg_mainMenu_[date]

2. Relocated all other project work to: erpg\Godot\Experiments\Doug\

Godot/Experiments/Doug/rpgr_gameWork_20211024A/globalScripts/playerSettings.gd

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+#***PLAYER SETTINGS: a singleton to hold settings in-game. Currently for test
+#	purposes, initializes a playerSettingsTemplate class, and attempts to
+#	load in a saved player settings file. This then updates the singleton.
+
+extends Node
+ 
+var settings_file = "user://testPlayerSettings.sav"
+var playerSettingsSingleton = PlayerSettingsTemplate.new()
+
+func _ready() -> void:
+	load_settings_file()
+
+#Using JSON: 
+#DKM TEMP: manual JSON parsing is most certainly not the way to go -- temp testing these 
+#	are saved and loaded correctly. 
+func load_settings_file():
+		var file = File.new()
+		file.open(settings_file, file.READ)
+		var text = file.get_as_text()
+		var parsedText = parse_json(text)
+		if(parsedText != null):
+			print("Input name loaded as: " + parsedText.playerSettingsTemplate.inputName)
+			playerSettingsSingleton.inputName = parsedText.playerSettingsTemplate.inputName
+			playerSettingsSingleton.riskFactor = parsedText.playerSettingsTemplate.riskFactor
+		else:
+			print("No previously existing player settings file found")
+			
+#DKM TEMP:			
+#****THIS LOADS a string successfully, but not objects
+#func _loadSettings() -> void:	
+		#DKM TEMP: we cannot hard code this here and allow user access on But_SaveS UI
+#	var settings_file = "user://testSettings"
+#	var file = File.new()
+#	if file.file_exists(settings_file):
+#		file.open(settings_file, File.READ)
+#		playerSettingsSingleton.inputName = file.get_var()
+#		file.close()
+#		print("name found as: " + playerSettingsSingleton.inputName)

Godot/Experiments/Doug/rpgr_gameWork_20211024A/globalScripts/playerSettingsTemplate.gd

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+extends Node
+class_name PlayerSettingsTemplate
+
+var inputName = "None"
+var riskFactor = "0"