File System

[itsamedood]

I had an idea for my game to write to a text document with some secret stuff to scare the player, similar to DDLC, but I can't use the File system with HaxeFlixel :(

I know how to READ a file with openfl.Assets.getText(), but as far as I can tell there's no way to write to a file using openfl.Assets.

Any other way i can pull this off?

[Geokureli]

If you're making a desktop game, check out sys.io.File and sys.FileSystem. but if you're making a web game, this isn't really feasible.

For something like DDLC you would include the files in your assets folder in their initial state and make changes to them as the game progresses.

[itsamedood]

Well the game didn't crash, so that's progress, BUT it still didn't work :(

[Geokureli]

open finder, press Command + Shift + G and paste that absolute path, up to the last slash, without the filename.

also in your project.xml do you have an asset's path specified? something like <assets path="assets" />? without that the compiler may not be copying the assets to the build folder

[itsamedood]

Ok so I figured out HALF the problem, and man do I feel stupid.

What you said got me thinking, so I checked Project.xml, and while I did have <assets path="assets" />, I had for whatever reason changed it to <assets path="assets" embed="true" />, which was causing issues.

Now it does find the file, and it's somewhat working. Here's the new problem:

try
{
    File.saveContent(FileSystem.absolutePath("assets/scripts/dialogue.txt"), "TEST");
    trace("Wrote successfully :)");
}
catch (e:Exception)
{
    trace("Error writing to file: [" + e + "]");
    trace("Wrote unsuccessfully :(");
}

As you can tell by this test, it should in theory write to dialogue.txt and inside should be just TEST, and say it wrote successfully, and do the opposite on error. It says it wrote successfully, however it doesn't actually save the content to the file. So close yet so far.

[Geokureli]

are you sure you're checking the cc/export/macos/bin/CC.app/Contents/Resources/assets/scripts/dialogue.txt version of the file rather than the cc/assets/scripts/dialogue.txt file? as I said before the compiler copies the file to the build location, so the original wouldn't show these changes

[itsamedood]

Ok so after checking the export it IS working, and I'm just stupid 😅

Thanks so much for your help man!