HTML5 and the |D| Flag

Sckewi

Hi all

I've discovered that when saving player data (as in game progress, levels complete, scores etc) using the io.open and the |D| flag in HTML5, the data is locked to the path on the website that wrote the data. So for example www.xyz.com/game/2/gideros.html can't read save data written by www.xyz.com/game/1/gideros.html.

Unfortunately this causes a problem on some hosts, where each new version of your app is uploaded to a new subfolder. Your player's save data is lost whenever you upload a new version.

I've managed to get around it using JS.eval and localStorage, but it would be nice if the built in |D| flag didn't have this problem.

Kind regards,
Sckewi

hgy29

Hi @Sckewi,

I understand it may be an issue for your case, but generally speaking it seems to me that it is a good idea to isolate data from multiple gideros apps hosted on the same site.

keszegh

maybe the folder could be depending only on the app name e.g. com.mycompany.myapp, which is set in export options.