Possible to overwrite/delete highscores?

Solar2D Native builds
#1

Basically, I want a leaderboard to have a ‘cumulative’ score of sorts, and the idea is instead of submitting a new score every time it gets higher, your old one is erased and replaced with the new one (so the leaderboard isnt populated with a ton of scores from the same person)

Is this possible in any manner?

#2

You should look into reading and writing files in LUA.  There are any sorts of options.  You can either read and write a CSV file (there are some CSV parsing functions that are available in LUA’s website – but no built in parser) or, favourite option by many developers, encode and decode JSON tables (Corona json library) before reading/writing a file.  For the latter approach, you should be able to find some tutorial in the Corona website.

#3

Hi @bgirolamo05,

You may want to read the overview guide of file reading/writing here:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/data/readWriteFiles/index.html

Regards,

Brent

#4

You should look into reading and writing files in LUA.  There are any sorts of options.  You can either read and write a CSV file (there are some CSV parsing functions that are available in LUA’s website – but no built in parser) or, favourite option by many developers, encode and decode JSON tables (Corona json library) before reading/writing a file.  For the latter approach, you should be able to find some tutorial in the Corona website.

#5

Hi @bgirolamo05,

You may want to read the overview guide of file reading/writing here:

http://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/data/readWriteFiles/index.html

Regards,

Brent