Save states in little control program

Hello,

i used the code from another mate here to control my computer in MC. This programm is perfect for me.

But i have the problem is when the chunk are unloaded or i restart the server the state of all active redstone signals go back to 0.
I want to save the state and after computer restart it should set it automatically to the last state.

http://pastebin.com/Pj1f5dRt

I'm not really good in writing programs. Hope anyone can help me..

Greetings

ok so i would add a simple function that writes to a file, updated each time a state changes. and another which reads from the file at startup ( lets say line 82, just before the main while loop ).
you would then use serialize and unserialize from textutils api. these functions turn tables into a string, and back from a string.

Example ( may need a little modification for your use case ):

function readFile( )
  local file = io.open( "some/File", "r" )
  local contents = file:read( "*a" )
  file:close()
  if contents then
    States = textutils.unserialize( contents )
  end
end

function writeToFile( )
  local file = io.open( "some/File", "w" )
  file:write( textutils.serialize( States ) )
  file:close( )
end

ok i'm absolute new to this and i want to get this work :)/> i think its not enough to add this in my code ?

in all honesty I didn't read your code. I read your problem and gave the solution. have you tried first? there is more satisfaction in knowing you did it yourself ;)/>

there you go… http://pastebin.com/vkG7qS0n

thank you originalBit. It works now.

i have delete a function and create the save file manually and it works now:

http://pastebin.com/CTpQsRex

if anyone want it.