De interface van VDS Renaissance is in meerdere talen beschikbaar. De officiële documentatie wordt in het Engels onderhouden om één consistente en altijd actuele referentie te garanderen.

Input and Output

DialogScript programs can read from and write to disk files.

Disk files are created or opened using their filename, but they are referred to thereafter using an identifier. You use the @NEW function to create or open a file and obtain its identifier.

DialogScript allows up to 8 files to be open at one time.

You can also read and write to the console (a text window) by using the identifier CONSOLE (which does not have to be opened.) You create a console application by selecting the appropriate target type.

You can read a specified number of bytes or characters from a file using @READ. You can read a line of text from a file (or the console) using @READLINE. The value of the OK status indicator becomes false when you read past the end of the file.

You can write a specified number of characters to a file using the command WRITE. You can write a line of text (with a carriage return and line feed at the end) using WRITELINE.

You can seek to a specific position within a file using the SEEKFILE command. You can determine the current file position, or whether the end of the file has been reached, using the @FILEPOS function.

You must close a file when you have finished reading from or writing to it, using the CLOSEFILE command.

You can write the contents of a compiled-in resource to disk using the WRITE RESOURCE command.