What the heck? Writing and reading ios files??

[Terry Judd]

On 26/06/2020, 02:40, "use-livecode on behalf of William Prothero via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

    Jacqueline:
    Thanks for responding. I am really stuck on this. 

    I can write the file, and get a list of the files I write, but when I try to read the file using the same code to create the filepaths, etc, the read routine says the file doesn’t exist. It all works in the dev environment. I had used a “_” char in the filenames, so I removed it. The read routine can’t find the file. Very wierd.

    I’m going to try to make a very simple test case that I can run on my phone and post it, but I’m going to take a break. I’ve posted my file reading and writing code here, but there is probably too much to go through. 

    Thanks for responding,
    Bill


Hi  Bill - here's an example script that I use cross-platform (desktop, iOS and Android) for reading and writing a settings file using specialFoderPath("documents") on mobile and specialFolderPath("support") on desktop. In this case the 'settings' are an array that are stored in a multipurpose global array (gData).

Terry... 

global gData

on setPaths
   switch environment()
      case "mobile"
         put specialFolderPath("documents")&"/" into tFolder
         break
      default
         put specialFolderPath("support")&"/myAppName/" into tFolder
         if not (there is a folder tFolder) then
            create folder tFolder
         end if
   end switch
   put tFolder&"settings.dat" into gData["paths"]["settings"]
end setPaths

on loadSettings
   put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
   put url ("binfile:"&tPath) into tSettings
   if tSettings is not empty then
      put arrayDecode(tSettings) into tSettingsA
      if tSettingsA is an array then
         put tSettingsA into gData["settings"]
      else
         # invalid settings data
      end if
   else
      # no settings file
   end if
end loadSettings

on updateSettings
   put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
   put gData["settings"] into tSettings
   put arrayEncode(tSettings) into tSettings
   put tSettings into url ("binfile:"&tPath)
end updateSettings

on clearSettings
   put gData["paths"]["settings"] into tPath
   if there is a file tPath then delete file tPath
end clearSettings