Please help me with using love.filesystem?

[alex_]

I have initialized properly (i believe) by having love.filesystem.setIdentity("folderName") in the love.load() callback

but when I try:

img=love.graphics.newScreenshot()
love.filesystem.write("folderName/img_rawData.txt", img)

it doesn't work!

It's a simple thing I'm doing, but where is it wrong?

[Robin]

1) You already save it to "folderName", so there is no need to use that:

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img=love.graphics.newScreenshot()
love.filesystem.write("img_rawData.txt", img)

2) I'm not sure if that works. If not, try:

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img=love.graphics.newScreenshot()
love.filesystem.write("img_rawData.txt", img:getString())

[alex_]

alright I will, thanks a lot!

[alex_]

It's still not working!

[Robin]

Could you post your .love, so we can see what the problem is?

[alex_]

function love.load()
love.filesystem.setIdentity("imgData")
love.graphics.setCaption("Draw")
love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,255,255)
love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0)
pixels={}
love.keyboard.setKeyRepeat(1,1)
end

function love.update(dt)
mouseX=love.mouse.getX()
mouseY=love.mouse.getY()
if love.mouse.isDown("l") then
table.insert(pixels,{mouseX,mouseY})
end
end

function love.draw()
for index,value in ipairs(pixels) do
love.graphics.rectangle("fill",value[1],value[2],10,10)
end
end

function love.mousepressed()
end

function love.mousereleased()
end

function love.keypressed(key)
if key == "z" then
table.remove(pixels)
elseif key == "s" then
rawData=love.graphics.newScreenshot()
love.filesystem.write("img_rawData.txt",rawData:getString())
end
end

[bartbes]

Didn't you have to make it EncodedImageData first?

[laconix]

It works perfectly, remember love.filesystem stores your data in %appdata%/LOVE in windows. When you check there, there will be an 'imgData' folder with your 'img_rawData.txt' file.

[alex_]

I should have mentioned this earlier, I'm not using windows, I'm using a mac.

[bmelts]

Well, on the Mac, it should store files in ~/Library/Application Support/LOVE. So, try looking there?