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d.healey

@treynterrio I'm pretty sure Engine.loadFromJSON() only requires a filename and as you say loads directly from the presets folder rather than appdata. Try just putting the filename in there.

Lindon

@d-healey confirmed - that's what this command does, so simplest solution is Engine.dumpAsJSON and Engine.loadFromJSON and the data will be written to the user presets folder..

treynterrio

@Lindon so I could do it like that?

inline function onButton1Control(component, value)
{
        local input = Input.getValue();
        Name.set("text", input);
        local data = 
                {
                    "Name": input
                };

        Engine.dumpAsJSON(data,"../textfile.txt");
        Engine.loadFromJSON("../textfiles.txt");

d.healey

@treynterrio

  Engine.dumpAsJSON(data,"../textfile.txt");
  Engine.loadFromJSON("../textfiles.txt");

When you load it you need to put it somewhere, but there is no point in loading it straight after you dump it as you already have it. The loading is done at a different time to the dumping.

You dump when the button is clicked, you load during on init.

treynterrio

@d-healey

@d-healey said in permanently displayed text:

When you load it you need to put it somewhere, but there is no point in loading it straight after you dump it as you already have it. The loading is done at a different time to the dumping.

I've now put it at the bottom of the script, but it still won't load

d.healey

@treynterrio Post a minimal snippet that demonstrates what you have so far

treynterrio

@d-healey

here:

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d.healey

@treynterrio

Engine.loadFromJSON("../Name.txt");

This function gets the data for you to put into a variable, but you haven't provided the variable. Then once you have the data you need to display it. HISE doesn't know that you want to show it in a label, it just knows to get the data from the file.

You can see in the doc here that the function has a return type.

So you'll want something like this:

const d = Engine.loadFromJSON("Name.json");

if (isDefined(d) && isDefined(d.name))
	Input.set("text", d.name);

Also json files should have a .json extension rather than .txt.

You should probably include this at the top of your button's callback to stop everything happening twice:

	if (value)
		return;

treynterrio

@d-healey

I really don't get I think I'm overthinking it
I've pasted this in now

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d.healey

@treynterrio You're almost there.

You need to give your data a name:

local data = {"": input};

"" Isn't any good. You can see when I load the file I'm checking to see if d.name exists (so that means I'm using:

local data = {"name": input};

Here, why do you have ../?

Engine.dumpAsJSON(data,"../Name.json");

When I'm loading the file I don't have that

const d = Engine.loadFromJSON("Name.json");

These need to match so that you are reading and writing the same file.

treynterrio

@d-healey no matter what I do, one error after another occurs, I can no longer compile, then I can no longer change the text in the created file, then it no longer creates a file

d.healey

@treynterrio said in permanently displayed text:

one error after another occurs

The error message will nearly always point you to the cause of the problem.

The real struggles you'll have are when you have a problem but no error message!

treynterrio

@d-healey that's what I mean with I can't compile there is no error and nothing works anymore

d.healey

@treynterrio What happens when you press the compile button?

treynterrio

@d-healey nothing happens and nothing work anymore

d.healey

@treynterrio what do you expect to happen when you press compile? What do you mean 'nothing' works?

treynterrio

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treynterrio

@d-healey When I click compile, Compile Ok doesn't even appear in the console anymore

treynterrio

@treynterrio can anyone please just solve this for me? I still don't know what I'm missing or what I'm doing wrong

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d.healey

@treynterrio Your snippet works here

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