I'm stuck on downloading a text

Solar2D Android
#1

I’m trying to download the text from a file on the Internet and it works fine if i wont to save it to the DocumentsDirectory, a file is created but i can’t get the text to end up on my Android screen.

It works fine in the emulator.

https://developer.anscamobile.com/content/network

What to do?

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#2

I’v solved it. But it has to be a easier way?

function hamtaData3()  
 local path = system.pathForFile( "something.shtml", system.DocumentsDirectory )  
 local htmlFile = io.open( path, "w+b" )   
   
 -- Request remote file and save data to local file  
 http.request{  
 url = "http://wdo.se/Corona",   
 sink = ltn12.sink.file(htmlFile),  
 }  
  
 local fh, reason = io.open( path, "r" )  
  
 if fh then  
 local contents = fh:read( "\*a" )  
 htmlHamta.text = contents  
 end  
  
 io.close( fh )  
  
end

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#3

I don’t really understand your question? What exactly did you solve? The above code downloads a file to the documents directory then copies the contents to a ‘global’ variable htmlHamta. There is nothing to do with displaying here… “i can’t get the text to end up on my Android screen” [import]uid: 23949 topic_id: 6355 reply_id: 22075[/import]

#4

Sorry for my uncleanliness.

The htmlHamta.text is a display object showing the received data.

The problem i had was that after the phone had download the text from Internet the response would not show up on the screen. Now when i read the response from a file it works!

I’m new at Corona an LUA so cut me some slack. :slight_smile: [import]uid: 28895 topic_id: 6355 reply_id: 22128[/import]

#5

No problem :slight_smile: I was at work when I wrote that, and I just couldn’t work out what you were asking. I’m new at Corona as well. [import]uid: 23949 topic_id: 6355 reply_id: 22138[/import]