Writing variables to a file on raspberry pi 4

Oakleaf30

Hi all, I'm trying to find a way to save a variable to a file on my raspberry pi 4 such as a high score for a game for example. I've looked around but haven't found anything about doing such a thing so I don't know if it's even possible. Does anyone know if it is possible and if so how to do it?

yadayadayadagoodbye

Couldn't you just manually type whatever is in the variable onto the file? Or are you trying to make it like, save your stats to your device? If the second, thats simply impossible as scratch does not have enough permissions to do that.

(You could try to look into turbowarp extensions tho, as Javascript might be able to save information to your device. I am, however, unfamiliar with that and cannot help in that regard)

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ben_and_co

i have a raspberry pi

thomasandbenji

Oakleaf30

I see, yeah I'm trying to do the second for a project but if it's not possible I'll figure something else out. Thank you

BigNate469

yadayadayadagoodbye wrote:
Couldn't you just manually type whatever is in the variable onto the file? Or are you trying to make it like, save your stats to your device? If the second, thats simply impossible as scratch does not have enough permissions to do that.

(You could try to look into turbowarp extensions tho, as Javascript might be able to save information to your device. I am, however, unfamiliar with that and cannot help in that regard)

JS can save things to your device, but it does so in the form of files, and it cannot directly edit files on your device for security reasons (even if you allowed it to; it's just not built into the File API)

You could try using the Pi as a server and accessing the Scratch API (api.scratch.mit.edu), and using that to access cloud variables in your project. Then, you just save what you want as a cloud variable.
Be warned, this requires quite a large amount of technical knowledge to make it work.

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