Problems opening file

jorgen

I want to store some settings in a file and then read them, but it seems Processing can't read the file. I try finding the error using IOException and getMessage() but this doesn't work. Here's the code snippet from the setup() method:

BufferedReader inputSettings;
 inputSettings = createReader("settings.txt");
 // Read settings
 String[] input=new String[2]; 
 input[0]="I"; input[1]="R";

 for(int i=0; i<2; i++) {
   try {
     input[i] = inputSettings.readLine();
   }
   catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     input[i] = null;
     System.out.println("File not found: " + e.getMessage());
   }
   if(input[i]==null) {System.out.println("ERROR"); exit(); }
 }

I get the output "ERROR" but not the one from System.out.println("File not found: " + e.getMessage());. There is a file settings.txt in the same folder as the program with two lines written in it.

Any ideas?

PhiLho

Perhaps try to use loadStrings() instead. Simpler, anyway.

jorgen

Thanks for the answer! However it doesn't work either; the string array is empty after using loadStrings(), so I guess it didn't find the file.

By the way I'm using windows 7, and I tried putting a copy of the file in the data folder as well.

EDIT: Forget the above, using loadStrings() works! Turns out by a stupid mistake the text file I put in the data folder was empty. Thanks!

(PS: I can't get the strikethrough working for some reason)