[Solved] love.filesystem.write problem

[SPlice]

I have been trying to get love to create folders or .lua files and it does not seem to work at all. I have tried some code bits I found on the forums, mainly

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love.filesystem.setIdentity("filetest")
love.filesystem.write("test.lua", "love.draw = function() love.graphics.print('hello', 10, 10) end")

I have tried similar code to make a folder and nothing shows up. I have taken code from other love programs, I have looked at the wiki, and the forums to try to find a solution and I have not been able. Anyone have any ideas? what am I messing up? Is there some other simple test code that's known to work that I might try?

I am on windows 7 I have love 0.7.2 I have tried giving love administrator rights.

[bartbes]

Where are you looking for this folder?

[Robin]

Administrator rights should not be necessary (otherwise LÖVE would complain or fail when you try running it without them, anyway).

Have you tried making another game with as main.lua:

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love.filesystem.setIdentity("filetest")
require 'test'

?

That should work, and then you can use Windows Explorer to search for test.lua.

[Lap]

Put this into your windows explorer address bar

"%appdata%/love/filetest

viola

[SPlice]

ah thanks, I was able to get it to make the file in the appdata/roaming/love/filetest folder. I was thinking the folder would be created in the project folder, D:\love\filetest. it seems inconvenient to send them into the bowls of my hard drive. I'm trying to generate arrays to use in tile maps, and I would like to be able to store them within the project folder, if that's not possible I suppose I can adapt.

on a side note I found all the files I have tried to generate over the last week in that folder.

btw thanks for the help!

[Robin]

"%appdata%/love/filetest

I didn't know Windoze Exploder was smart enough to do that.

The reason for this whole business is that the write location is normally writeable for non-administrator applications. If you were to place your game in, say Program Files, a game that saved files would need administrator rights to be able to run.