Saving To A Text File - Android

[Googie85]

I am having some issues with saving to a file on an Android device.

I have tried the following:

put "binfile:" & specialFolderPath("engine") & slash & "bell.txt" into textgoal
put "Testing 123" into URL textgoal

Also:

open file textgoal for text
write "Testing 123" to file textgoal
close file testgoal

If anyone could help with this I would be forever greatful...

Many Thanks,

Matthew.

[Simon]

Hi Matthew,
Not sure if this will solve your problem but;

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put "binfile:" & specialFolderPath("engine") & slash & "bell.txt" into textgoal
--should be
put ("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("engine") & slash & "bell.txt") into textgoal

and you cannot write to specialFolderPath("engine") you should use specialFolderPath("documents") if you want to record a file.

Simon

[Googie85]

I'm unsure how I would save a .txt file to the documents folder instead of engine...

Many Thanks,

Matthew.

[Simon]

oops made a little mistake above;

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put URL("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("engine") & slash & "bell.txt") into textgoal

and to write

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put textgoal into URL("binfile:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "bell.txt") 

ooops ooops!
If bell.txt is really a text file then it's just URl("file:"... not URL("binfile:"...
Text is not a binary file.

Simon

[SparkOut]

Just for clarity:

specialFolderPath("documents") is a writable location, sandboxed to be accessible only to the app. Other apps will have their own sandboxed documents folder. It is not a generally accessible folder for any and all user documents. The specialFolderPath folders are automatically accessible to you app, but the names are case sensitive (ie lower case only) on mobile (mixed case is OK on desktop, and the paths have different destinations - on desktop "documents" really does mean the user documents folder).

[Klaus]

Hi Matt,

please spread the word: the ENGINE folder is TABOO for writing!

I'm unsure how I would save a .txt file to the documents folder instead of engine...

We have a specialfolderpath() for both of these, please take a look in the dictionary!


Best

Klaus