Player to reload last project on device

grotly

Hi Gideros team!

I noticed that the code for the projects run on the device stays in a folder even after the player is closed. I was wondering if it's possible to make the player run the latest run project when launched on the device. It would be nice to show the progress to my friends for getting feedback without having to be near my computer.

Thanks!

atilim

Yes this feature is requested a couple of times. But I haven't put it to the roadmap yet. Here it is: http://bugs.giderosmobile.com/issues/73

Magnusviri

Put this in your main.lua file. I haven't tried to handle file dependencies. But this will download the latest code from a webserver. This is how I'm able to code on my iPad and run it on my iPhone.

function exists(fname) local f = io.open(fname, "r") if (f and f:read()) then return true end end   fileLoader = Core.class() function fileLoader:onComplete() local out = io.open("|D|"..self.currentFilename, "wb")     out:write(self.loader.data)     out:close() self.info:setText(self.currentFilename.." downloaded") print(self.currentURL.." downloaded") self:step() end function fileLoader:onError() self.info:setText("error downloading "..self.currentFilename) print("error downloading "..self.currentURL) end function fileLoader:onProgress(event) self.info:setText("progress: " .. event.bytesLoaded .. " of " .. event.bytesTotal) print("progress: " .. event.bytesLoaded .. " of " .. event.bytesTotal) end function fileLoader:step() if ( table.getn(self.urls) > 0 ) then self.currentURL = table.remove(self.urls) self.currentFilename = string.match(self.currentURL, ".*/(.*)" ) local download = not exists("|D|"..self.currentFilename) if self.currentFilename == "main.lua" then self.currentFilename = "main2.lua" download = true end download = true -- I'm just always downloading because if a 404 occurs then the file is corrupt and needs to be replaced, eventually I should find out if it is a 404 and just not save it. if download then self.info:setText("loading "..self.currentFilename) print("loading "..self.currentURL) self.loader = URLLoader.new(self.currentURL) self.loader:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, self.onComplete, self) self.loader:addEventListener(Event.ERROR, self.onError, self) self.loader:addEventListener(Event.PROGRESS, self.onProgress, self) else self.info:setText(self.currentFilename.." exists") self:step() end else --stage:removeChild(self.info) self.completionHandler() end end function fileLoader:init(urls, completionHandler) self.completionHandler = completionHandler self.urls = urls self.info = TextField.new(nil, "loading files...") self.info:setPosition(10, 10) stage:addChild(self.info) self:step() end Texture.oldNew = Texture.new function Texture.new(filename, filtering, options) if exists(filename) then return Texture.oldNew(filename, filtering, options) elseif exists("|D|"..filename) then return Texture.oldNew("|D|"..filename, filtering, options) else return nil end end   local downloadURLs = { '<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/path/to/file.lua'" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/path/to/file.lua'</a>, '<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/path/to/image.png'" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/path/to/image.png'</a>, }   function start() dofile("|D|file.lua") end fileLoader.new(downloadURLs, start)

grotly

Thanks, I'll try it today.