Hello all, my name is Tim

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#1

I am a retired application programmer, and now finally have the time to program something I want.  Corona is my first attempt at a game development system, and so far it seems very powerful, and yet simple at the same time.  I am working on a word game, as I have always enjoyed Scrabble, and while there are many of them out there, I’m hoping there is always room for one more.

I got far enough recently, that I was able to deploy a version of the game to a Galaxy Tablet.  For the most part it seems to work fine, but I am finding problems with accessing a data file.  Hopefully I can find an appropriate area on the forum to get some help.  

#2

that is cool. i really looking forward the game. can you give a link for the app?

#3

No link yet.  My biggest problem is still that when deployed to a the tablet, it does not see the file containing the dictionary of words.  I do not know what is going wrong, and am in the process of trying to load android debugging services.  The only suggestions that I have found online is that file names are not case sensitive in the corona simulator, but are when deployed.  Case sensitivity does not appear to be my problem though?  I have the file (enable1.txt) in my project directory, but how do I know that it gets copied to the right location on the android device to correspond to the resource directory referenced in my path statement below?  I gave my project to my brother who has a mac, and he has the same problem even in Corona.  Any ideas?

local path = system.pathForFile( “enable1.txt”, system.ResourceDirectory)

#4

not really sure what is your problem. maybe you should throw a question on the forum, instead asking on this sub-forum :slight_smile:

#5

look in the code exchange I just uploaded a module for this

#6

that is cool. i really looking forward the game. can you give a link for the app?

#7

No link yet.  My biggest problem is still that when deployed to a the tablet, it does not see the file containing the dictionary of words.  I do not know what is going wrong, and am in the process of trying to load android debugging services.  The only suggestions that I have found online is that file names are not case sensitive in the corona simulator, but are when deployed.  Case sensitivity does not appear to be my problem though?  I have the file (enable1.txt) in my project directory, but how do I know that it gets copied to the right location on the android device to correspond to the resource directory referenced in my path statement below?  I gave my project to my brother who has a mac, and he has the same problem even in Corona.  Any ideas?

local path = system.pathForFile( “enable1.txt”, system.ResourceDirectory)

#8

not really sure what is your problem. maybe you should throw a question on the forum, instead asking on this sub-forum :slight_smile:

#9

look in the code exchange I just uploaded a module for this