Reading and writing
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:12 am
How would one go about reading and writing to text files with love?
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Reading and writing
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Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:43 pm
In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:01 am
I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?Roland_Yonaba wrote:In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:14 am
Is it really more work to click a link than it is to write a forum post asking someone else to do it for you?Delibrete wrote:I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?Roland_Yonaba wrote:In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.
If your attention span is so short that you didn't get as far as the example code at the top of the page in the docs, then programming is not for you.
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:29 am
Well I've been trying for a few days now to read and write to text files, but it's ok now I've figured it out. But you're right, programming is probably not for me.trubblegum wrote:Is it really more work to click a link than it is to write a forum post asking someone else to do it for you?Delibrete wrote:I see the functions are there, but I don't know how to use them. How would I use those functions?Roland_Yonaba wrote:In pure Lua, you should have IO library... Working with löve, ou should take a look at love.filesystem. All functions you do need to perform what you want are packed in that table.
If your attention span is so short that you didn't get as far as the example code at the top of the page in the docs, then programming is not for you.
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:43 am
No worries .. some people are programmers, others are designers, and yet others are taxidermists.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, so don't give up just yet
But Rome wasn't built in a day, so don't give up just yet
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:49 am
I've been trying for years to become a programmer and a designer, hopefully I'll get there eventually. Thanks mantrubblegum wrote:No worries .. some people are programmers, others are designers, and yet others are taxidermists.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, so don't give up just yet
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 4:27 am
Help. In the following code, I'm trying to write 'hello text file!' to text.txt at the root of my game folder (same level as main.lua). Basically, I want to run the LOVE game, press a key, and have something written to a file.
1) How do I get this to work?
2) What if I want to write to text.lua instead of text.txt?
3) What about navigating into folders within the game folder?
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function love.load()
text= love.filesystem.newFile( 'text.txt' )
end
function love.keypressed(key,unicode)
if key == "space" then
txt:open('w')
txt:write("hello text file!")
end
end
2) What if I want to write to text.lua instead of text.txt?
3) What about navigating into folders within the game folder?
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:48 am
Hi!
1.
should be
and
as you used text (not txt) as variable name at love.load()
2.
change 'text.txt' to 'text.lua'
3.
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem
love.filesystem can only read/write to that special directory. If you want to save at an other dir you have to use
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-io.close
but I would not recommend it
1.
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if key == "space" thenCode: Select all
if key == " " thenCode: Select all
txt:open('w')
txt:write("hello text file!") Code: Select all
text:open('w')
text:write("hello text file!")2.
change 'text.txt' to 'text.lua'
3.
https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem
love.filesystem can only read/write to that special directory. If you want to save at an other dir you have to use
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-io.close
but I would not recommend it
Re: Reading and writing
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 11:22 am
Why should text.txt become text.lua?