What the heck? Writing and reading ios files??

[JB]

Glad to see you got it working!

JB

> On Jun 25, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Prothero-ELS via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> JB,
> Thanks for the comment. Yes, I went back to my previous use of “_” in the file name. All is working now. It was the difference between “l” and “L” in a file name. Sheesh!
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> https://earthlearningsolutions.org
> 
>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 2:27 PM, JB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I don’t think the underscore character “_” should cause any problems
>> in the pathname but if you use a space in the name you need to be
>> sure and enclose the pathname in quotes or it will fail.
>> 
>> JB
>> 
>>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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