how to determine number of level-files in directory??

[BurningHand]

Being honest, your requirements seem at odds with the Internal FileType. Unless you plan to repackage all of your users' level packs into the release, you probably want to look at using the local or external type (and then download level packs or allow the user to download and place them into the right spot). The directory operations should work just fine on local and external files (even on Android).

At that point you can decide if you expect all items in the levelpacks folder to be subfolders, then you can just list() the levelpacks folder to get them (otherwise you'd have to iterate over them and see if they are directories).

[wolfieee]

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String dirBase="sounds/animals";
      String animals = Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).readString();
      ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<String>();
      list.addAll(Arrays.asList(animals.split("\n")));
      System.out.println("Found "+list.size()+" files");
      for (int ix=0; ix<list.size(); ix++) {
         System.out.println(ix+") "+list.get(ix));
      }
      


[just4phil]

great man!
thankx!! that works....

and what about directories? how can i determine the number and names of directories?

(i would like to show a list of directories and if the user clicks on a directory the app shows the contained levels)

best regards
phil

[wolfieee]

great man!
thankx!! that works....

and what about directories? how can i determine the number and names of directories?

(i would like to show a list of directories and if the user clicks on a directory the app shows the contained levels)

best regards
phil

I don't know about diffing between directories and non=directories for internal files, but I had to adjust the code to operate on both Android and Desktop as follows: (The android call on my test device gives no files back when reading a directory!)

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String dirBase="sounds/animals";
      ArrayList<FileHandle> list=new ArrayList<FileHandle>();
      
      switch (Gdx.app.getType()) {
      case Android:
         list.addAll(Arrays.asList(Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).list()));
         break;
      case Applet:
         break;
      case Desktop:
         try {
            String animals = Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).readString();
            
            for (int ix=0; ix<animals.split("\n").length; ix++){
               list.add(Gdx.files.internal(dirBase+"/"+animals.split("\n")[ix]));
            }
         } catch (Exception e) {
            
         }
         break;
      case iOS:
         break;
      case WebGL:
         break;
      default:
         break;
      }
      

      System.out.println("Found "+list.size()+" files");
      for (int ix=0; ix<list.size(); ix++) {
         System.out.println(ix+") "+list.get(ix).nameWithoutExtension());
      }


[just4phil]

shit.... the code to determine the number of levels is ok under desktop version

but on android this crashes

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   public static int getNumberOfLevels() {   // ----- crasht unter android!!!!!!
   
      String dirBase="data/world/level1";
      String levelfiles = Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).readString();
      ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
      list.addAll(Arrays.asList(levelfiles.split("\n")));
      int numberOfLevels = list.size();
      Gdx.app.log("Found " + numberOfLevels, " levels");
      
      return numberOfLevels;
   }

[wolfieee]

shit.... the code to determine the number of levels is ok under desktop version

but on android this crashes

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   public static int getNumberOfLevels() {   // ----- crasht unter android!!!!!!
   
      String dirBase="data/world/level1";
      String levelfiles = Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).readString();
      ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
      list.addAll(Arrays.asList(levelfiles.split("\n")));
      int numberOfLevels = list.size();
      Gdx.app.log("Found " + numberOfLevels, " levels");
      
      return numberOfLevels;
   }

You have to use a switching routing for the two different environments according to my tests:

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String dirBase="sounds/animals";
      ArrayList<FileHandle> list=new ArrayList<FileHandle>();
      
      switch (Gdx.app.getType()) {
      case Android:
         list.addAll(Arrays.asList(Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).list()));
         break;
      case Applet:
         break;
      case Desktop:
         try {
            String animals = Gdx.files.internal(dirBase).readString();
            
            for (int ix=0; ix<animals.split("\n").length; ix++){
               list.add(Gdx.files.internal(dirBase+"/"+animals.split("\n")[ix]));
            }
         } catch (Exception e) {
            
         }
         break;
      case iOS:
         break;
      case WebGL:
         break;
      default:
         break;
      }
      

      System.out.println("Found "+list.size()+" files");
      for (int ix=0; ix<list.size(); ix++) {
         System.out.println(ix+") "+list.get(ix).nameWithoutExtension());
      }


[just4phil]

ok, thankx!
i will try that.

[mzechner]

I looked into this, some clow^H^H^H nice gentleman commented out some code in AndroidFileHandle, preventing it to be able to list directories (NAAATTEEE ). I'll discuss with the team, i assume there was a reason for it.

[BurningHand]

He claimed it was too slow.

[mzechner]

I put that back in, that will make AndroidFileHandle#exist() work again. Listing internal files seems to work fine for me on Android. On the desktop you will run into problems if you link against your Android's asset folder instead of having a copy. That's because in that case the assets are in the classpath and will be fetched from there. One can't list contents of the classpath i'm afraid.