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Rhinoceros wrote:

s-ol wrote: you use bitser.dumps and bitser.loads to save/load tables into strings you can then store where/however you want.

Ahh, ok. I got it to serialize the save data, but if I try to put filedata in the table, it throws an error. How should I go about writing filedata to a file as part of a table?

zorg wrote:- Get the small canvas' imagedata (Canvas:newImageData), encode that as 'png', receiving a FileData, which you can do :getString on, so you now have a string representation of the PNG image. combine it into your savefile, and it should be small enough.

zorg wrote:

Rhinoceros wrote:

s-ol wrote: you use bitser.dumps and bitser.loads to save/load tables into strings you can then store where/however you want.

Ahh, ok. I got it to serialize the save data, but if I try to put filedata in the table, it throws an error. How should I go about writing filedata to a file as part of a table?

zorg wrote:- Get the small canvas' imagedata (Canvas:newImageData), encode that as 'png', receiving a FileData, which you can do :getString on, so you now have a string representation of the PNG image. combine it into your savefile, and it should be small enough.

yourtable.previewimage = canvas:newImageData():encode('png'):getString() -- as a string.