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    Can I edit files outside Gideros sandbox on desktop?

    speeder_kidotecaspeeder_kidoteca Member
    edited January 2014 in General questions
    I want to make a map editor for my game, and I am considering using gideros itself... (instead of say: QT + OpenGL, or Allegro, or something like that).

    But, can I somehow edit files outside Gideros sandbox? Otherwise it would not be a very good map editor, having to navigate to exotic system folders to find what you edited.
    I make games for children: http://www.kidoteca.com
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      Both Lua File System plugin and Lua works with absolute paths, so can read/write any file as long as program has sufficient permission.

      Here is what I tested on my windows and it worked
      require"lfs"
 
function listdir (path)
	for file in lfs.dir(path) do
		if file ~= "." and file ~= ".." then
			local f = path..'/'..file
			print (f)
		end
	end
end
 
lfs.mkdir("c:/test")
 
file = io.open("c:/test/test.txt", "w")
file:write("Hello World")
file:close()
 
listdir ("c:/test")
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    • adityaaditya Member
      Instead of spending time creating a map editor, why not use an existing solution (Tiled) and focus on your game? :)
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    • speeder_kidotecaspeeder_kidoteca Member
      aditya my game is a point and click adventure :) The maps are mostly hand drawn by the artist, and the map editor actually is not to draw the map, it is to code the logic of the puzzles. (code in the sense, connecting keys to keyholes... there level designers don't have to know how to code anything at all, only what each object do)
      I make games for children: http://www.kidoteca.com
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    • ar2rsawseenar2rsawseen Maintainer
      I don't know if that would interest your map editor or not, but just in case:
      http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/32833#Comment_32833
      http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile
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