Is there a way to get the name of the current project?

Questions
1

I want to make a backup tool, but instead of having to key in the project name manually, is there a way to get the project name?

2

Not that I know of,

3

You shouldn’t need it I think.

saveProjectTab for example, can take a project name optionally, but will just use the current project by default.

4

@JakAttak - What I plan on doing is saving a text file to Dropbox. I want the name of the file to be the name of the project.

5

You could use project info. Add something like this to the setup of the projects you’re saving, or put it in a backup library that’s a dependency of every project you backup:

    version = 1.0
    saveProjectInfo("Description", "My Awesome Project v"..version)
    saveProjectInfo("Author", "Me")
    saveProjectInfo("Version", version)
6

@Saturn031000. Oh. A trick you could try, is getting the first line of the Main file. Every project has the name there when first created.

7

@JakAttak - Thanks for the idea! Here’s the function I wrote to find the name:

function findProjectName()
    local main = readProjectTab("Main")
    local beginner = 4
    local ender = 0
    if string.find(main, "-- Use this")~=nil then
        ender = string.find(main, "-- Use", 3)-3
    else
        ender = string.find(main, "function", 5)-3
    end
    local title = string.sub(main, beginner, ender)
    return title
end
8

@Saturn031000 Here’s a version.

-- getProjectName
    
function setup()
    print(projectName())
end

function projectName()
    local str=readProjectTab("Main")
    if string.sub(str,1,3)=="-- " then
        return(string.sub(str,4,string.find(str,"\
")-1))
    end
end