System.listCurrentDirecto ry() help (lua)

[TacticalPenguin]

Ok I'm tryin to get this thing to work, I want a little script that lists everything in the current directory and prints it to the screen but does nothing else. I also want to be able to understand it. Whoever helps me out may or may not recieve some P01/\/T$.

[LMelior]

This is what I used, because the example in the wiki is not very clear:

filelist=System.listDirectory()
numfiles=table.getn(filelist)
for k=1,numfiles do
     screen:print(10,10*k,filelist[k].name,Color.new(255,255,255))
end

Untested of course, but there shouldn't be anything in there you can't handle. Follow the link to find out what else System.listDirectory() puts in the table that it returns.

EDIT: Also, you shouldn't run System.listDirectory() in a while loop.

[TacticalPenguin]

I was talkin to bronx on msn and lookin at a filebrowser source but i couldnt quite get it. I understand the directory commands and stuff, i just was having troubles getting it to run correctly. This works though. Thanks lmelior!

[Yongobongo]

Originally Posted by LMelior

This is what I used, because the example in the wiki is not very clear:

filelist=System.listDirectory()
numfiles=table.getn(filelist)
for k=1,numfiles do
     screen:print(10,10*k,filelist[k].name,Color.new(255,255,255))
end

Untested of course, but there shouldn't be anything in there you can't handle. Follow the link to find out what else System.listDirectory() puts in the table that it returns.

EDIT: Also, you shouldn't run System.listDirectory() in a while loop.

Thanks to you also! I used that wiki ALOT when learning LUA, and still use now for references You helped me make browsR