ReadAll

[Rick]

std:string Stream::ReadAll() would be convenient.

[Josh]

What would it do?

[Rick]

Read the entire file to a string. Coming from the .NET work and File.ReadAllText() is handy to just get the entire file contents into a string to play around with in 1 function call.

[Josh]

Try FileSystem::LoadString().

[Rick]

What does that do? It's not documented: http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/documentation/_/command-reference/filesystem/

[Josh]

It loads a file and returns the entire contents in a string.

[Rick]

Can we get that documented because that's nice to know

[gamecreator]

Or maybe it's undocumented because it's unofficial?

[Josh]

If it's undocumented by definition it's unofficial. I think he is asking for it to be official.

[ZioRed]

Is there any other useful functions in FileSystem that we should know? For example I remember that we could use your FS to load content from web (e.g. response from a webservice), is that still available in LE3 under the hood? It would be really great to have since I could ensure platform-independent feature to my Combu for LE/C++ (it's currently using libcurl to access webservices, I don't know if it works on iOS [i suppose yes here, since I have the dylib on Xcode] and Android)

[Josh]

HTTP streams are not supported in 3.x. It's actually a feature that was built into BlitzMax.

[ESP]

How hard would it be to add to 3.1?

 

Robin