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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Read and Write Web Storage in HTML5?

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Zigi
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Posted: 14th Apr 2018 14:39 Edited at: 14th Apr 2018 14:42
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Hi all!

I have exported my project to HTML5 and I have noticed the Read and Write file commands works only as long the game is running. After reloading the page the project is unable to find the previously saved content which is indicates anything the Read and Write file commands is doing, is only temporary in HTML5 and it did not actually read and write the web storage which is a common way to save and store information locally in HTML5.

I'm wondering if is there anything I'm missing or AppGameKit can not read and write web storage in HTML5?
I would appreciate any help.

Thank you.

//Edit I noticed the typo in the title, I would appreciate if someone could fix it
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 16th Apr 2018 16:55 Edited at: 16th Apr 2018 16:55
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Currently it is not supported, we would need to hook into the HTML5 web storage API to get persistent data storage. Something for us to look at in future.
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Zigi
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Posted: 16th Apr 2018 22:24
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Thanks Paul. It is very unfortunate.

I imagine HTML5 is not the priority but I think it would be important to be able to store data on all supported platforms at least. I hope to see this feature coming soon
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Posted: 17th Apr 2018 07:49
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I wrote a fairly in-depth guide some time ago about how to call native Javascript functions from within AppGameKit (Tier 1) by hijacking the "Message" command. This allows you to pass data from the AppGameKit interface to standard HTML/Javascript for any outside processing, which can include using local storage to save the data. It's not an elegant solution but gets the job done until native support may be added.

Working Example: http://mjpsites.com/agk/CallJavascript/ (You can change your name and click in the AppGameKit view to update the HTML header and title bar of the tab).

Guide: https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/221260

The guide is only focused on AppGameKit to JavaScript, not vice-versa. There are some options to get the data back into AppGameKit but I haven't worked out any guide for that yet (HTTP requests are always still an option for retrieving data).
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Zigi
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Thanks a lot xCept it is looks very promising. I'm definitely going to look in to this.
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