Can not read a file

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#1

Hi. I have just started working on a game for the first time. I am pretty close to finishing it. The problem I’m facing is that I can not save and load highscore of mmy game. I am trying to get help from this previous post of Rob Miracle https://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/12/10/tutorial-howtosavescores/ . here is what I have done:

I made a NEW ASSET and pasteed the MODULE CODE in it. Then I pasted the last bit of code in the main.lua to get the score. then I’m using this

 local highscore = score.load()

highScoreText.text = highscore

to display my score. but when I run the code, it says it cannot read the file ‘scorefile’ and return a nil value.

What am I doing wrong here? I think I have not put the scorefile.txt in the correct place. Can you guide where I should save it?

Thanks

#2

You have to save the file first. There should be an API to save the score. 

Rob

#3

There is also the possibility that the file is empty. You would have to check if this is the case.

if highscore == nil then --make highscore = 0 else --show saved highscore end
#4

You have to save the file first. There should be an API to save the score. 

Rob

#5

There is also the possibility that the file is empty. You would have to check if this is the case.

if highscore == nil then --make highscore = 0 else --show saved highscore end