Accessing LOVE archive files

[Palmar]

Sorry if there was thread like this, but I found nothing on keywords "archive", "accessing LOVE archive" and etc.
I have "levels" directory in my LOVE archive, where I store my game levels. I need to read those files. I know how to read and write files in %APPDATA% directory, but is there any way to open files stored in .LOVE archive? Is this related to love.filesystem.mount?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad english.

[Plu]

You should just be able to use love.filesystem.load:
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.load

It will check the save directory for the file and then if it cannot find it, it will also check the root directory of your archive.

EDIT: if you're already using this function and it stopped working when you made an archive, make sure you check capitalisation. Windows isn't case sensitive, and will gladly open "someFile.dat" if you say love.filesystem.load( "somefile.dat" ), but the archive is case sensitive and will stumble over the missing capital F.

[Palmar]

But it loads LUA's file function, and I need just a single txt file.

[Azhukar]

http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.read

I recommend you read the wiki on love.filesystem http://www.love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem

[Palmar]

Already done. Problem solved. There is no information on wiki that LOVE reads first in archive, and only then in %APPDATA%, huh.

[Positive07]

There is no information on wiki that LOVE reads first in archive, and only then in %APPDATA%, huh.

Really? I went to the love.filesystem page on the wiki and the first lines says:

Provides an interface to the user's filesystem.

This module provides access to files in two places, and two places only:

The root folder of the .love archive (or source directory)
The root folder of the game's save directory.

Later on it says:

Files that are opened for read will be looked for in the save directory, and then in the .love archive (in that order). So if a file with a certain filename (and path) exist in both the .love archive and the save folder, the one in the save directory takes precedence.

... Pretty clear right?

[slime]

You can change the behaviour with the optional second argument to [wiki]love.filesystem.setIdentity[/wiki], or by adding t.appendidentity = true to your love.conf function if you don't call love.filesystem.setIdentity.