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khat33b's avatar
khat33b
Visitor
11 years ago

Read and write from temp file

How do I read and write data from a temporary file in the folder "tmp:"? The data which I am storing is too big to be stored in the registry.
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chaklasiyanikun's avatar
chaklasiyanikun
Roku Guru
6 years ago

Is there any way to find File Location on temporary storage. getPath() or any else?

  • speechles's avatar
    speechles
    Roku Guru
    6 years ago

    You mean so you can know if you need to read ahead of your write?

    Sub LogMessages(message As String)

    ' write active logs in temp
    fileName = "tmp:/logmessages.txt"
    LocalFileBrowser = CreateObject("roFileSystem")
    if LocalFileBrowser.exists(fileName)
        text = ReadAsciiFile(fileName)
    else
        text = ""
    end if
    WriteAsciiFile(filename,text+chr(10)+message)

End Sub

    You could probably do something like the above. Not sure entirely what you are after.

    • chaklasiyanikun's avatar
      chaklasiyanikun
      Roku Guru
      6 years ago

      Here I tried to find a file path like a tree structure. In package storage, I created a one folder image and inside an image folder stored 1.txt file and I tried to find my file Location like a pkg:/images/1.txt using only file name 1.txt.