Question

I’m working on a windows phone 7 game and I have saved the levels in a text file and i want to load it into a 2D array but there is no content importer for txt files, I have used the isolated storage manager

protected void read_lvl()
    {
        IsolatedStorageFile myIsolatedStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
        IsolatedStorageFileStream fileStream = myIsolatedStorage.OpenFile("myFile.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
        using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(fileStream))
        {    //Visualize the text data in a TextBlock text

            while (!reader.EndOfStream)
            {
                //for each row
                for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++)
                {
                    //read in the line
                    string myLine = reader.ReadLine();
                    //take out the commas
                    string[] row = myLine.Split(',');

                    //convert to string to ints
                    //and feed back into array
                    int[] nRow = new int[row.Length];
                    for(int r=0; r<columns;r++){
                        nRow[r] =Convert.ToInt32(row[r]);
                        myreadArray[i, r] = nRow[r];
                    }

                }
            }

        }
    }

Which is fine for loading a saved game state etc
But I want to have multiple levels in multiple .txt files and have tried using this instead:

        //stream from file
        Stream stream = TitleContainer.OpenStream("myFile.txt");
        //make a stream reader from the stream
        using (StreamReader sreader = new StreamReader(stream))

But its throwing the same error : There are no importers which handle this file type.

what do?

Answer 1

Don’t know if this will help you but this is how I load game maps into my game (x and y are my grid coordinates):

var assembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("View.Maps.Breakout_" + _breakoutSelection + ".txt");

using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(stream))
{
    int y = 0;

    while (!streamReader.EndOfStream)
    {
        string data = streamReader.ReadLine();

        int x = 0;

        foreach (var mapSquare in data)
        { code here }
    }
}