Switching from ATL to STI - tileData does not exist anymore

[lxndio]

Hello,

currently I am recoding a game that I've wrote about half a year ago. I have seen that Advanced Tiled Loader is not being developed anymore so I switched to Simple Tiled Implementation.
My problem is that tileData does not exist anymore. In the documentation of STI I cannot find an alternative function. How can I solve this problem?

Regards,
lxndio

[artofwork]

What I would do is go through the class file and see what properties and methods the class contained, what & when its method's return or updated its properties, I looked through map.lua and compiled a list of properties and its methods, this list may or may not be complete

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--Properties of map
self.tilewidth
self.tileheight
self.canvas
self.tiles
self.tileInstances
self.drawRange
    self.drawRange.sx
    self.drawRange.sy
    self.drawRange.ex
    self.drawRange.ey
self.width
self.height
self.tilesets
self.layers
self.orientation

--Methods of map
Map:init(path, fw) 
Map:initWorldCollision(world) 
Map:setTiles(index, tileset, gid)
Map:setLayer(layer, path)
Map:setTileData(layer)
Map:setObjectCoordinates(layer)
Map:setSpriteBatches(layer)
Map:setObjectSpriteBatches(layer)
Map:setDrawRange(tx, ty, w, h)
Map:addCustomLayer(name, index)
Map:convertToCustomLayer(index)
Map:removeLayer(index)
Map:update(dt)
Map:draw(sx, sy)
Map:drawLayer(layer)
Map:drawTileLayer(layer)
Map:drawObjectLayer(layer)
Map:drawImageLayer(layer)
Map:drawWorldCollision(collision)
Map:resize(w, h)
Map:convertIsometricToScreen(x, y)
Map:convertScreenToIsometric(x, y)
Map:convertTileToScreen(x, y)
Map:convertScreenToTile(x, y)
Map:convertIsometricTileToScreen(x, y)
Map:convertScreenToIsometricTile(x, y)
Map:convertStaggeredTileToScreen(x, y)
Map:convertScreenToStaggeredTile(x, y)

Based on the information above you could possibly extend the functionality of STI and write a get method to retrieve whatever information you need by placing it right inside the file before the line where it says return Map.

Example: This would return a table of all the properties of Map

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function Map:getEverything()
     return {
                self.tilewidth,
                self.tileheight,
                self.canvas,
                self.tiles,
                self.tileInstances,
                self.drawRange,
                self.drawRange.sx,
                self.drawRange.sy,
                self.drawRange.ex,
                self.drawRange.ey,
                self.width,
                self.height,
                self.tilesets,
                self.layers,
                self.orientation
      }
end

return Map

Ofourse you would need to know what each property is and what kind of data is may or may not hold, somethings might be tables some might be strings, some might be numbers

[Karai17]

What exactly do you need tileData for?