Mike: Save/Load should work now; TODO updated

love/mike/TODO

@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@ Either find or write a better way to save table information, tserial fails when
 Also, possibly find a way to use love.filesystem.write() instead of just doing it myself
 
 Game crashes if I try to save without running it from the dir code: "love ." But love "mike" will crash
-
+-- Fixed, but the source code could use some cleanup.
+-- I'd also like to make it so I can do "actors = GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)" instead of having the variable (actors) in the save file
+-- Should be doable with love.filesystem.read(SAVE_FILE), just need to stop adding in the "VARIABLE =" at the beginning of my save file
+-- Also remove the need to put in a string at all this way.

love/mike/lib/GameState.lua

@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@ GameState = {}
 
 -- Supply the table then the name of the table in string format
 function GameState.save(tbl, table_name)
-  file = io.open("save_game/savefile.lua", "w")
+  saved_table = print_table(tbl, table_name)
-  io.output(file)
+	return saved_table
-  print_table(tbl, table_name)
+
-  io.close(file)
 end
 
 
-function GameState.load()
+function GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
-  dofile("save_game/savefile.lua")
+	-- Pretty sure doing this slash will break it on winblows
+	dofile(love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory().. "/" .. SAVE_FILE)
 end
 
 function printf (s, ...)
@@ -20,24 +20,31 @@ end
 function print_table(tbl, table_name, only_once)
 	if only_once == nil then
 		printf("%s = { ", table_name)
+		saved_table = table_name .. " = { "
 	end
 	for key,value in pairs(tbl) do
 		if type(value) == "table" then
 			printf("%s = { ",key)
+			saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = { "
 			print_table(value, table_name, true)
 			printf("}, ")
+			saved_table = saved_table .. "}, "
 		end
 		if type (value) ~= "table" then
 			if type(value) == "string" then
 				printf("%s = \"%s\", ", key, value)
+				saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = \"" .. value .. "\", "
 			else
 				printf("%s = %d, ", key, value)
+				saved_table = saved_table .. key .. " = " .. value .. ", "
 			end
 		end
 	end
 	if only_once == nil then
 		printf("}")
+		saved_table = saved_table .. "}"
 	end
+	return saved_table
 end
 
 --Counts contents of tables of tables as well

love/mike/lib/keys.lua

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ LOAD_KEY = "l"
 HALF_SPEED = "lshift"
 MOVE_RIGHT = "right"
 MOVE_LEFT = "left"
+SAVE_FILE = "testing.lua"
 
 function love.keyreleased(key)
   if key == QUIT_KEY then
@@ -14,16 +15,16 @@ function love.keyreleased(key)
   -- save
   elseif key == SAVE_KEY then
     --love.filesystem.write(saveFile, Tserial.pack(player, false, true))
-		GameState.save(actors, "actors")
+		love.filesystem.write(SAVE_FILE, GameState.save(actors, "actors"))
 
   -- Load
   elseif key == LOAD_KEY then
   	
-		save_exists = love.filesystem.exists("save_game/savefile.lua")
+		save_exists = love.filesystem.exists(SAVE_FILE)
 
     if save_exists then
       --player = Tserial.unpack( love.filesystem.read( saveFile ) )
-			GameState.load()
+			GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
     end 
   end 
 end