Writing to file - why won't this code work?

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Lindsay

(Posted 2014) [#1]

This code appears to work, but no file actually gets created on disk.

The problem seems to lie with using monkey://data/ ... if I hard-code the path, it works fine.

I'm running it as a desktop app in OSX 10.9.3.

Thanks, Lindsay

Strict

Import brl.filestream

Function WriteTestFile:Int(fname: String)
	Local textFile: FileStream

' This line causes the app to fail
	Local filename: String = "monkey://data/"+fname+".txt"

' But this line works just fine
'	Local filename: String = "/Users/lindsay/Monkey/Learning/FileIOTest/FileIOTest.data/"+fname+".txt"
	
	Print "Attempting to create: "+filename
	textFile = New FileStream(filename,"w")
	If textFile = Null
		Print "Can't create text file"
		Return 0
	End
	
	textFile.WriteString("Bananas!")
	textFile.Close()
	
	Return 1 ' Success
End	

Function Main:Int()
	If WriteTestFile("test") = 0
		Print "Failure"
	Else
		Print "Success"
	End
	
	Return 0
End

Produces this output ...

Attempting to create: monkey://data/test.txt
Success

Danilo

(Posted 2014) [#2]

Works fine here, the file is created within the resulting .app

/Users/danilo/Projects/Monkey/filetest.buildv79d/glfw/xcode/build/Release/MonkeyGame.app/Contents/Resources/data/test.txt

Right-click on your .app and select something like "show package content" to see it,
or use ForkLift 2 file manager.

Lindsay

(Posted 2014) [#3]

Oh, of course, I was expecting it to create the file in my *source* directory. So obvious now you explain it to me. Thanks! :)