Saving and Loading on iOS

[Bruto]

Hi everyone,

I did a search on saving/loading files on iphone and found a couple threads about it, but honestly they lead to more questions than answers.
Apparently we can't manage ini files like delete, rename.. is this correct in current build?
Where should we put an ini file inside the zip xcode project that we want to load a text into the game? How do we do this (the loading/saving) in MMF2? The use of apppath gives me a warning when I try to compile into Xcode project.

thanks

[BHGames]

Use the ini object. And yes, you cannot delete, rename files from within MMF-iOS.

[Bruto]

ok but where do I place the ini inside the xcode project? That is, a text file that I want to be loaded into the game.

[Bruto]

Resources folder perhaps

edit: yeah, resources folder doesn't work.

[BHGames]

Ah, ok, you want to load a pre-saved ini file (not generated previously generated and saved with your MMF game itself).

Well, that's a good question

[netninja]

Good question Bruto. I hadn't thought about this. But it would be very useful to be able to include premade ini files.

What comes to mind as a work around (thought I haven't tried it) is to use an edit box which already contains the information in your premade ini file (edit the editbox text in the frame editor). And then at the start of the frame you could save it as "save.ini", then try to open "save.ini" with the INI object.

Probably won't work, but might be worth a shot for now.

[Bruto]

It could work with List object... I just tested it and worked "partially".. I mean partially because it did cut one word in one of the sentences but maybe I did something wrong. I'm going to test with a strings with multiple paragraphs. I think that if the values are numbers, List object could do the job very well.

[Francois]

I have not tried this. But I think it would work. Put the file at the root of your XCode project, and manually insert the file in the project windows (choose add file). The file will be included in the bundle.
The INI object access files within the bundle.
Please tell us if it works.

PS: due to the way XCode works, I cannot insert new files from within MMF

[BHGames]

This would be great to know to handle localization in text, for instance.

[Bruto]

ok I'm probably being blind here but I can't see "add file" option anywhere in the project windows.