I’m trying to save my highscore when my player dies but instead of saving it to the file it got the info from. It creates a new file and send it download. Why is it doing that? & how can I get it to save the file to the high score file I made to store the scores.

[image] Creating and Populating a Table From Scratch Coding Questions I’ve made a sketch that stores and reads an array of CSV row strings from the browser’s local storage using storeItem() & getItem() respectively; then converts that array to p5.TableRow objects; and fina…

That doesn’t explain why it downloads the file instead of saves the file to where the file is.

Browsers don’t give us any permission to change anything on a user’s computer! :space_invader:

so basically you saying it will only download the file unlike processing where it saves the scores to the file where it first got the scores

Correct! Browser client-side code is run inside a very restricted sandbox w/ lotsa restrictions on what it can do to a device. :robot: If you have more storing requirements than a storeItem() can offer: :file_folder: p5js.org/reference/#/p5/storeItem You’re gonna need to contact a server-side cod…

I’m not trying to do anything that effects anything outside of my program

It’d be really nice if we could at least save files into the same folder our client-side app is running. :running_man: However, even restricting our file saving to the app’s folder isn’t allowed! :cry: For all available “workaround” alternatives for storing, you can read this article below: …

Well js is dumb now I should return to java the smarter language

[image] ctrembla: Well JS is dumb now… It’s not JS’ fault. Any other browser client-side language would have those same restrictions! :roll_eyes: BtW, JS has a server-side version called Node.js which can save to disk: :star_struck: [image] Node.js Node.js® is a JavaScript runtim…

if every language would have same trouble why did java do what I’m trying to do without problem?

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