Trying to download and display text - Comes up as []'

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I am trying to download a text file from a server of mine, and have it display as a string. It works perfect on the simulator in Windows, but after uploading it to my android phone, all that shows up in place of the text is a rectangle box and an apostrophe, pretty much like this

[]’

Here are the parts of the code that have any interaction, and I cant seem to figure out what the problem is short of it not being able to properly interpret whats been downloaded

[lua]-- Text is the filename
network.download( url, “GET”, networkListener, text, system.DocumentsDirectory )[/lua]

The networkListener calls a function that is intended to read the file as a string

[lua]function readList(textFile)
texts2 = display.newText(“success2”, 100, 50, native.systemFont, 26)
local index = 1
local filePath = system.pathForFile( textFile, system.DocumentsDirectory )
local file = io.open( filePath, “r” )
function convert()
line = file:read("*a")
text462s = display.newText(line, 100, 200, native.systemFont, 26)
print(line)
end
if file then
convert()
else
text42s = display.newText(“errors”, 100, 200, native.systemFont, 26)
end
end[/lua]

While on the simulator on the computer everything shows up as it should, the phone does not. Another thing is that the file I upload onto my server has line breaks, but the one thats downloaded into my sandbox folder has no line breaks. I’ve tried the other way of requesting files that I found in the api, but it gave the same issues. This isnt necessarily a big issue, because I figure I can read it and convert it from there once its a string, but the main concern is the inability to read the file. [import]uid: 67886 topic_id: 21398 reply_id: 321398[/import]

#2

Looks like Im going about this the wrong way. I was under the impression that an event.response pumps out a file path, which it seemed to do on every occasion except this one, but I took the code from a thread that someone made

[lua]local txt=display.newText(‘More text should appear soon…’,10,10)

function networkListener( event )
– event.response is the actual contents of the text
– file I threw on my server.
local more=display.newText(event.response,10,30)
end

network.request( “http://www.yourdomainhere.com/stuff/update.txt”, “GET”, networkListener )[/lua]

and it works, at least so far. Now I gotta try to convert it into something I can use.

If anyone sees this and understands what exactly just happened, I’d be interested to know. Every other time I use event.response in this form, it would tell me its in my sandbox folder.

Whoops, looks like I was under the wrong account before [import]uid: 97117 topic_id: 21398 reply_id: 84726[/import]