File access API?

[PhatPeterParticipant]

Anyone made a file access Monkey2 extension for iOS and Android? I for one need to save me some time so would happily pay good money for one here and now.

[scurtyParticipant]

Do you mean to make Files and Directories on Mobile? Or stuff like CHMOD? Or attrib +s +a?
I haven’t tested LoadString("..") on a mobile device myself yet but it should work just fine.
If for some reason not, maybe look into Local MyDataBuff := DataBuffer.Load("file path") then use MyDataBuff.PokeString and MyDataBuff.PeekStringto write/read the data to the Buffer. And called MyDataBuff.Save("file path")
iOS and Android file paths should follow the POSIX’y file system hierarchy so “/tmp” or “/bin” is the in root directory.
For Windows the root directory is “C:/”

For file attributes/permissions you’d need to impliment chmod() or _chmod in the libc.monkey2 module.

[nerobotParticipant]

LoadString based on DataBuffer.Load

Look at std.filesystem functions. There is an InternalDir() for example. Maybe it’s what you need.

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Function LoadStringMobile:String( path:String ) Return LoadString( InternalDir()+path ) End Function SaveStringMobile( text:String,path:String ) SaveString( text,InternalDir()+path ) End ' usage: SaveStringMobile( "hello","text-data.txt" ) ..... Local str:=LoadStringMobile( "text-data.txt" ) Print str

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Function LoadStringMobile:String( path:String )     Return LoadString( InternalDir()+path ) End Function SaveStringMobile( text:String,path:String )     SaveString( text,InternalDir()+path ) End ' usage: SaveStringMobile( "hello","text-data.txt" ) ..... Local str:=LoadStringMobile( "text-data.txt" ) Print str

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[PhatPeterParticipant]

That looks amazingly promising ! Thanks  yes exactly I mean creating files and reading them back for instance.

I don’t have my Android with me to try things so I have to guess a bit, could anyone give an example how
to save a png onto the external memory card or something similar?

[scurtyParticipant]

Didn’t know it was based on DataBuffer. xD Interesting.
Go Monkey!

On Android I think an SD card is under a mounted device file. Since it’s based on the Linux Kernel it should be something
like “/mnt/sdcard” mounted from “/dev/sdb” or “dev/sda”
Saving PNG’s is simple using Pixmap.SetPixel and Pixmap.Save

Edit: Or if you already have a loaded image, you can just use CopyFile

[nerobotParticipant]

Topic about image saving: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/forums/topic/how-to-save-a-image/

There is also ExternalDir() function along with InternalDir.

I’m not sure is it sdcard dir or not.

But if it’s so, you can use something like this:

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Function SaveImageMobile( img:Image,path:String ) Local path:=ExternalDir()+path (New Canvas(img)).CopyPixmap(New Recti(0,0,img.Width,img.Height)).Save(path) End

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Function SaveImageMobile( img:Image,path:String )          Local path:=ExternalDir()+path     (New Canvas(img)).CopyPixmap(New Recti(0,0,img.Width,img.Height)).Save(path) End

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

I’ve noticed that http://monkeycoder.co.nz/forums/topic/a-simple-applet-framework/ uses SDL_GetPrefPath to find a place for settings.

I think Mark put it in the develop version of MX2

I’m planing to use that for my savegames, and precomputations, across platforms.

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