asset style access for "Project:Icon", please?

Questions
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i give up. what’s the asset syntax for the icon?

and b, why not enhance the deprecated diagnostic to provide the specific translation?

thanks!

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    img=readImage(asset.builtin.Tyrian_Remastered.Boss_C)
    saveImage(asset.Icon,img)
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weird, i’d swear Icon didn’t come up when i typed asset.
thanks!

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@RonJeffries I had to balance specific translations vs generic warnings because I didn’t want a lot of old projects spamming every single deprecated asset warning on every frame when you ran them. A specific translation for a deprecation warning could mean lots of different sprites would have different suggested fixes. Which is really nice but then I kind of needed a one-time-warning system and didn’t get around to implementing that

This is why I implemented the grouping for identical print messages too, so asset warnings wouldn’t be too spammy

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A guideline for now:

Any string that starts:

“Project:File” → asset.File

“Documents:File” → asset.documents.File

“Dropbox:File” → asset.documents.Dropbox.File

“Planet Cute:File” → asset.builtin.Planet_Cute.File
(Where “Planet Cute” is any included asset pack)

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@RonJeffries Icon didn’t come up when I typed asset either. I guess autocomplete doesn’t cover every possible situation. I just kept playing around until I found the correct syntax that worked for Icon.

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later it did come up. that’s odd

8

is there no syntax for an arbitrary file in Files, or in Dropbox per se? and what even is the Dropbox folder inside Codea?

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@RonJeffries If you have Icon in your code, it will show in the autocomplete just like anything else you add to code.

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Here it is on my iPad, not offering Icon as an option, nor accepting it.

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@RonJeffries If the Icon image doesn’t exist in the Project folder, then you have to use the … and “ “ just like any file that doesn’t exist.

    saveImage(asset.."Icon",img)

If the Icon image does exist in the Project folder, then you can use just the single . without the “ “ .

    saveImage(asset.Icon,img)
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arrgh that’s so easy to use :slight_smile: I’ll try it, thanks!
Works. How can I help get this stuff written down where we can find it?

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@RonJeffries it should be in the docs under Graphics → Using Assets

There’s a section on “Creating New Assets” which explains the purpose of the concatenation operator (..) to create an asset key for a non-existent path. It gives an example using saveText to write a text file into your documents folder

Basically any asset that can be referenced via autocomplete or using the bracket ([]) syntax exists on your file system. If Codea is picking it up, it must be there

The .. syntax is required is when you need to specify a path to a file that isn’t there yet

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Thanks, I’ll look for that :slight_smile: