filesystem.newFile????

[pielago]

I am learning about love.filesystem.newFile() and i see something weird and i don't understand?

when i write this it works and it makes the folder and the .lua

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if not love.filesystem.exists("file.lua")then
	file = love.filesystem.newFile("file.lua")
	file:open("a")
	file:write("\nworks")
	file:close()
end

also if i do this it works perfect it even makes the folders

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love.filesystem.write("file","anything here")

but if i only write this it doesn't work at all????

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if not love.filesystem.exists("file.lua")then
	file = love.filesystem.newFile("file.lua")
end

the 3rd option doesn't work at all and wish to use that one (bad spelling its okay here just wanted to give the idea of my problem)
and still don't get it and i place them under love.load()
can someone explain me why it doesn't work

[HugoBDesigner]

I'm not sure about other solutions, but I'd use this one:

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love.filesystem.write("file","anything here")

You just forgot the file extension:

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love.filesystem.write("file.lua","anything here")

And it should pretty safely sure save it into your %appdata% folder. I hope I helped

[pielago]

see my problem is i want to see if the file exist
if it doesn't exist i want to make it
that code wont work the other 2 do...
but why???

[HugoBDesigner]

see my problem is i want to see if the file exist
if it doesn't exist i want to make it

It should work then:

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if not love.filesystem.exists("file.lua") then
    love.filesystem.write("file.lua","anything here")
end

If it doesn't works, I think I'd need your .love file to check if anything else is messing up this part of your code

[pielago]

okay here is a .love all i want its to save the direction of the block save it as soon as I close and load it as soon I start the .love
also tried save the X and Y and nothing ...

[bartbes]

It's because newFile creates a file object, not a file. If you want the file to be created you need to open the file for writing too.

[Jasoco]

newFile is meant for files that you need to write a lot to or need to write to over time. You open a file, throughout the game write data and at the end close it. Or you open it and write a lot of information (More info than love.filesystem.write can handle) and close it when finished.

Ad bartbes said, it's an object. It has no form until you open it. And it has no contents until you fill it.

Use write for small files. newFile for larger ones.

[HugoBDesigner]

Found your problem: while reading the file, you were making this:

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a.movestate = tonumber(a.movestate)

But "a.movestate" is not a number variable, but a direction variable ("left", "right", "up" and "down"). If you remove the line above, it works. When you open the game, it shows the last direction you moved for.

[pielago]

Omg thank you so much i tried to fix it and didn't know where the problem was
i am able now to save even X,Y pos
question will this work if i want to save tables? or many tables? or do i need another way ????

and thank you for your reply great forum..

[HugoBDesigner]

Omg thank you so much i tried to fix it and didn't know where the problem was
i am able now to save even X,Y pos
question will this work if i want to save tables? or many tables? or do i need another way ????

and thank you for your reply great forum..

You're welcome!
Saving tables IS possible, but not easy. You'd have to do something like this:

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local txt = ""
local splitchar = "/"
for i, v in pairs(table) do
    txt = txt .. tostring(v) .. splitchar
end
txt = string.sub(txt, 1, -2)

But if you've got something (a string for example) in that table that contains the "splitchar" part, replace it by something else.
Also, things may go weird if you have tables inside tables. To load, you must use the "string:split()" function. I'll already let clear that it was not made by me:

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function string:split(delimiter) --Not by me
	local result = {}
	local from	= 1
	local delim_from, delim_to = string.find( self, delimiter, from	 )
	while delim_from do
		table.insert( result, string.sub( self, from , delim_from-1 ) )
		from = delim_to + 1
		delim_from, delim_to = string.find( self, delimiter, from  )
	end
	table.insert( result, string.sub( self, from  ) )
	return result
end

And while loading:

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table = {}
local t = textlaoded:split(splitchar)
for i, v in pairs(t) do
    if tonumber(v) then
        table.insert(table, tonumber(v))
    elseif v == "true" then
        table.insert(table, true)
    elseif v == "false" then
        table.insert(table, false)
    else
        table.insert(table, v)
    end
end

But that depends a lot on how your table is and what it contains. I'd not use it if you have different things on your table, or if your table have custom items (like table["string"] or table.string - which is the same thing, but still).