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[Ennio]

I'm trying to code a script that reads/writes some informations on a .txt file.

I need to save these informations in global variables when the game start, and update them dynamically when some trigger happens in game.

So i included a .inc script (mapInfo.inc) in base.inc and created a file object with my txt. (access: reading).

I read the info and load it in const variable.
Everything works! ok!

But when i try to reopen the file object to write (and update the informations when get the trigger) i get a "File not open" error...the syntax is ok, i think the problem is that the file is opened the firts time and never closed (even though i used file.Close)...or something like that

Someone can help me?
Thanks!

[Ennio]

Ok problem found... seems that with relative path you can only access a file in reading mode, so to write on it...you have to call a constructor with the full path...like
var MyFile = new File ("C:\document\myfile.txt")....

but obviously this cannot works after compiling the project on another machine...how can i solve this problem?

[Mnemonic]

WME doesn't really care whether the path is absolute or relative, but the user needs to have write permissions for the resulting directory. For that reason I recommend using the Game.SaveDirectory property and store your files there. This directory is always writable.

[Ennio]

Great advise, as usual
However debug console continues to return the warning about absolute path, but i image that can ignore it, right?

[Mnemonic]

Yes you can.