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