Trying to get love2d to read text files in the same directory.

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Redward
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Trying to get love2d to read text files in the same directory.

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Hello, I am having some issues finding the correct way to get my packaged game to read text files that are in the same directory as the game. These text files are linked to StreamerBot, which writes the name of the chat user into the text file to be shown while streaming.

Every method I have found seems to make it impossible for the game.love to read the files in the folder of the same directory. The code works if I haven't packaged it, and I don't want to have Visual Studio running while using this program. So, I am seeing if anyone has a solution for this.

Thanks if anyone can help.
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Re: Trying to get love2d to read text files in the same directory.

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What methods have you tried?
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You are probably looking for love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory that you need to mount up.
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Re: Trying to get love2d to read text files in the same directory.

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It appears that zorg made a mistake in the link. Here's the correct one: love.filesystem.mount
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Re: Trying to get love2d to read text files in the same directory.

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So i tested some of those tips. and i found a half solution, and that is i created an input where it reads the file so i type in the directory where the .txt file is, and manged to get it to read from the roaming/love directory
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