Loading and saving files from unity.

anon_60548885 · November 21, 2008, 4:22am

My game is exporting text files with data created by the user for use in another program, right now it saves into whatever folder the app was run from, how do I make a prompt that lets the user specify a location to save to.

Also how do I make a prompt that allows them to select a text file to load.

anon_64685089 · November 21, 2008, 7:50am

You might want to check out the File Browser on the wiki page:

anon_21037177 · November 21, 2008, 2:59pm

Just out of curiosity, how do you output text files in Unity? All I can find that is any sort of file I/O is TextAsset, and that seems to be read only…

AmazingRuss · November 21, 2008, 5:13pm

Take a look at the System.XML.Serialization namespace.

Eric5h5 · November 21, 2008, 5:51pm

Use StreamReader and StreamWriter, with ReadLine and WriteLine. There’s also ReadAllBytes/WriteAllBytes and others. Look in the Mono/.net docs.

–Eric

lankoski · November 21, 2008, 6:30pm

BinaryFormatter class is also rather handy, as it can Serialize Hashtables orther things that XML Serializer cannot handle.