Anotther difficulty

[BoonyBuny]

Well it seems that I was beeing stupid, and thought it was writting the data to the data.txt that is inside my game's folder, beeing a custom path

after reading the return of love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory(), the data.txt is just there, in appdata/roaming/LOVE/Balloon_adventure ; and successfuly wrote on...

i t w o r k e d a l l a l o n g....................

well now that It works it was just me beeing stupid, to read the data.txt and assign the values to their respective variables (bestscore, coins)
i just gotta use love.filesystem.read() right?

[BrotSagtMist]

If you have the \n part in table.concat you can use readline for each entry.

[BoonyBuny]

Oh thanks! and yes I used your method without any libraries, im gonna tinker things around and if it works I'm gonna post my solution here, so other people that may have my problem have the solution

[BoonyBuny]

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local highscores={}
    for line in love.filesystem.lines("data.txt") do
        table.insert(highscores, line)
    end
    bestscore=highscores[1]
    coins=highscores[2]

works fine, it' sin my love.load() function, the UI shows perfectly the best score and the coins collected in that best run, but there's one catch in my gamestates.lua

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function newGameState(x)
    if x == "Menu" then
        GameState = "Menu"
        score = 0
        coins = 0
        scoretimer = 0
    elseif x == "Play" then
        GameState = "Play"
    elseif x == "Death" then
        GameState = "Death"
        Player.x = 300
        Player.y = 500
        if score > bestscore then
            bestscore = score
            saveScore()
        end
    end
end

if score > bestcore then... Outputs an error, because bestcore is considered a String variable and not a integer/float etc, how can i fix this?

[BrotSagtMist]

table.insert(highscores, tonumber(line))

Sometimes lua can use strings as they where numbers or vise verca, sometimes it can not.
When in doubt you need to explicitly call tonumber/tostring on values.

[BoonyBuny]

]Thanks to all of you, my saving and loading system works perfectly.

codes:

loads the save in love.load()

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    local highscores={}
    for line in love.filesystem.lines("data.txt") do
        table.insert(highscores, tonumber(line))
    end
    bestscore=highscores[1]
    coins=highscores[2]

saves the game

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function saveScore()
    local ScoreData={bestscore, coins}
    love.filesystem.write("data.txt", table.concat(ScoreData,"\n"))
end

in my gamestates.lua, if you die, it checks if you did a best score, and proceeds to save

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function newGameState(x)
    if x == "Menu" then
        GameState = "Menu"
        score = 0
        coinsCollected = 0
        scoretimer = 0
    elseif x == "Play" then
        GameState = "Play"
    elseif x == "Death" then
        GameState = "Death"
        Player.x = 300
        Player.y = 500
        if score > bestscore then
            bestscore = score
            coins = coinsCollected
            saveScore()
        end
    end
end

The priority in my score system is seconds, you may have 5 coins in a 50seconds run, but if you have a 55 seconds run with 0 coins, that 55seconds run will be the one saved