Here is another one of my attempts to backup all of my projects. I wrote something like this earlier, but you had to key in each project name to save it. I have over 300 projects, so I wasn’t about to do that. This one uses the dependency list. All you have to do before running this program is to select (check) the projects you want backed up in the dependency list. All of the checked projects will be backed up in one file that can be synced with Dropbox and to your laptop. You can also extract any project from the backup file. So I finally have all of my 300+ projects backed up on my PC and Dropbox. Here are the steps to use this code. Copy this code into the project you want. Change the line of code “projectName” to the name of your project. The reason this is done is because there isn’t any way for the code to get it’s own project name and it’s name won’t appear in the dependency list to be backed up. You also have the choice of changing the “backupName” if you want. After doing that, close the project. The reason for closing the project is because the project doesn’t exist yet for this program to read it’s own tabs and will give an error. Once you run the program, the next thing to do is long press the “Create backups” button. After creating the backup file, it will list the date and time the file was created, all of the projects that were saved, a project count and the file size. You only need to create the backup file once, or anytime you add or change projects you want saved. After that, to see a list of the projects in the backup file, long press the “Show saved projects” button. That will show the date and time of the original backup, and the projects in the file. To extract a file, either key in the project name in the “Project” area or copy it from the “Show saved projects” list and paste it into the “Project” area. Long press the “Extract” button and a message saying a tab with that name was created. You can do this multiple times if you need to extract multiple files. Once you’re done extracting the projects, close the program and each project you extracted will appear as a seperate tab. To load those projects, select and copy the code then exit the program. Long press the “Add new project” button on the Codea home page and give it a name. Press create and that project, with multiple tabs if there are any, will be created. Anytime this program is started, any tabs that were created from a previous run will be deleted. One other thing, if you get a list of “error” projects instead of “saved” projects when you create a backup, that’s because you deleted a project and it wasn’t unchecked in the dependency list first. The only way around that is to create a dummy project with that name, uncheck the dependency to it, and then delete that project. Also, any project that was extracted into a tab will be enclosed in --[[ --]] (comments). That may also cause a problem if there are already --[[ --]] within that project and you try to extract another project. Just save that project first or delete the tab. Because I use a .txt extension for the backup, you won’t see it in the Codea Dropbox folder. Just do a sync anyways and it will sync wih Dropbox. Because it’s a .txt file, you’ll be able to look at the file in Dropbox or on your PC. My 300+ projects created a backup file approx 820,000 bytes. I tried to explain everything, but if you have questions, just ask.
EDIT: Changed spritepack to assetpack in the “dds=” line of code in setup().
function setup()
--
-- Use the + tab (dependencies) to select the projects.
-- Check eack project you want backed up.
--
projectName="backup2" -- name of this project
backupName="bkup.txt" -- name of the backup file
hardCodedBackup={projectName}
fileSaved={}
func=none
projectListed=false
dds="/Documents/Dropbox.assetpack/"
path = os.getenv("HOME").."/Documents/"
for a,b in pairs(listProjectTabs()) do
if string.sub(b,1,4)~="Main" then
saveProjectTab(b,nil)
print("tab "..b.." deleted.")
end
end
showParams()
end
function showParams()
parameter.action("Create backups",startBackup)
parameter.action("Show saved projects",startExtract)
parameter.action("Extract",getProject)
parameter.text("Project")
end
function startBackup()
output.clear()
showParams()
dataCount=0
bData=""
projectTable={}
readPlist()
createProjTable()
table.sort(projectTable)
saveBackup()
print("\
Number of projects ",#projectTable)
print("Number of bytes ",dataCount)
end
function draw()
func()
end
function none()
end
function saveBackup()
local tabList={}
local data=""
local err={}
local file = os.getenv("HOME")..dds..backupName
local wFd = io.open(file,"w")
wFd:write(os.date())
print(os.date().."\
")
for _,name in pairs(projectTable) do
tabList=listProjectTabs(name)
data=""
data=data.."\
\
[**".."[**-- "..name.."\
\
"
if #tabList>0 then
for _,tab in pairs(tabList) do
data=data..string.format("\
--# %s\
",tab)
data=data..readProjectTab(name..":"..tab)
end
wFd:write(data)
dataCount = dataCount + string.len(data)
print("saved - "..name)
else
table.insert(err,"error - "..name)
end
end
wFd:close()
print("\
")
for a,b in pairs(err) do
print(b)
end
end
function createProjTable()
for a,b in pairs(hardCodedBackup) do
table.insert(projectTable,b)
end
local s=1
local e,ss,s1,e1
s,e=string.find(bData,"Dependencies",s)
ss,ee=string.find(bData,"</array>",e)
if s~=nil then
while true do
s,e=string.find(bData,"<string>",e)
if s>ss then
break
end
s1,e1=string.find(bData,"</string>",e)
table.insert(projectTable,string.sub(bData,e+1,s1-1))
s=e1+1
end
end
end
function readPlist()
local file = path..projectName..".codea/Info.plist"
local bFd = io.open(file,"r")
local data=""
if bFd then
while true do
data = bFd:read(1024)
if not data then
break
end
bData = bData..data
end
bFd:close()
end
end
function startExtract()
output.clear()
projectNotFound=""
func=extractDisplay
tab={}
--dds="/Documents/Dropbox.spritepack/"
listProjects()
projectListed=true
end
function extractDisplay()
background(40,40,50)
fill(255)
if #fileSaved>0 then
text("Tabs created",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT-250)
for a,b in pairs(fileSaved) do
text(b,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT-250-40*a)
end
end
if projectNotFound~="" then
text("Project not found",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT-100)
text(projectNotFound,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT-125)
end
end
function listProjects()
local dt=false
local file = os.getenv("HOME")..dds..backupName
io.input(io.open(file,"r"))
for i in io.lines() do
if not dt then
print(i.."\
")
print("*** Projects in "..backupName.." ***")
dt=true
end
if string.find(i,"[**".."[**-- ",1,true) then
print(string.sub(i,10))
end
end
end
function getProject()
if Project=="" then
return
end
if not projectListed then
output.clear()
end
parameter.clear()
func=extractDisplay
local s=string.len(Project)
if string.sub(Project,s)=="\
" then
Project=string.sub(Project,1,s-1)
end
readBackup(Project)
showParams()
end
function readBackup(proj)
local projectFound=false
projectNotFound=proj
local headerFound=false
local file = os.getenv("HOME")..dds..backupName
bData=""
io.input(io.open(file,"r"))
local str1="[**".."[**-- "
local str2=str1..proj
for i in io.lines() do
if string.find(i,str1,1,true) then
if proj==string.sub(i,10) then
headerFound=true
projectFound=true
projectNotFound=""
else
headerFound=false
if string.len(bData)>0 and projectFound then
saveProjectTab(proj,"--[====["..bData.."--]====]")
table.insert(fileSaved,proj)
projectFound=false
print(proj)
bData=""
end
end
elseif headerFound then
bData=bData..i.."\
"
end
end
end
I remove the projects I’m done with and paste them into a Pages file in case I need them again.