Mike: created ability to do 'table = GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)

love/mike/TODO

@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ Game crashes if I try to save without running it from the dir code: "love ." But
 -- 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.
+-- Previous idea didn't work, but have created the ability to do "actors = GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)"

love/mike/lib/GameState.lua

@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 GameState = {}
 
 -- Supply the table then the name of the table in string format
-function GameState.save(tbl, table_name)
-  saved_table = print_table(tbl, table_name)
+function GameState.save(tbl)
+  saved_table = print_table(tbl)
 	return saved_table
-
 end
 
 
 function GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
 	-- Pretty sure doing this slash will break it on winblows
+	-- placeholder is the name of our placeholder variable
+	-- so we can do things like "actors = GameState.load"
 	dofile(love.filesystem.getSaveDirectory().. "/" .. SAVE_FILE)
+	return placeholder
 end
 
 function printf (s, ...)
@@ -19,7 +21,8 @@ end
 
 function print_table(tbl, table_name, only_once)
 	if only_once == nil then
-		printf("%s = { ", table_name)
+		table_name = "placeholder"
+		printf("local %s = { ", table_name)
 		saved_table = table_name .. " = { "
 	end
 	for key,value in pairs(tbl) do

love/mike/lib/keys.lua

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ function love.keyreleased(key)
 
     if save_exists then
       --player = Tserial.unpack( love.filesystem.read( saveFile ) )
-			GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
+			actors = GameState.load(SAVE_FILE)
     end 
   end 
 end