Tool to edit .bgeconf file?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hi everyone.
I’m making a game that uses globalDict.
It is not essential, but it could be very useful for me if there is a way to edit the .bgeconf file that globalDict generates, outside the game engine.
The file looks like this:

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It would be useful for testing things while devolping the game.

Is there a way to edit the file?
Thanks

Edit: between the non-human-readable characters you can see some human-readable strings but when I change those the bge can’t read the file anymore… So that way doesn’t work

2

For you it looks better than me(I don’t know why replacing default UTF-8 to any larger range doesn’t work in Gedit when it can’t read file correctly. I am not sure if text editor can read it!

3

I can open the file with Notepad++, and I can edit the ‘human readable’ parts of the file, but then the file becomes corrupted, so I was curious if there is a way to edit it, in a way that the bge still can read it.

4

If you want to have a human-readable save file, you should save and load the file yourself. I would recommend using the json module, Though if you want to be able to save values that aren’t Python basic types, you’ll have to use something else like pickle.

5

The bgeconf files are saved using the Python built-in marshalling functions, which means they’re not designed to be human readable.
If you really want to use bgeconf (rather than just using an equally-as-easy to use format like JSON (which is also human readable)), then here’s some tools to write/read bgeconf files to/from json files (which are editable text files)




from os import path    
import json, marshal


def bgeconf_to_json(directory, filename):
    bgeconf_path = path.join(directory, "{}.bgeconf".format(filename))
    json_path = path.join(directory, "{}.json".format(filename))
    
    with open(bgeconf_path, "rb") as conf_file, open(json_path, "w") as json_file:
        return json.dump(marshal.load(conf_file), json_file)
    


def json_to_bgeconf(directory, filename):
    bgeconf_path = path.join(directory, "{}.bgeconf".format(filename))
    json_path = path.join(directory, "{}.json".format(filename))
    
    with open(bgeconf_path, "wb") as conf_file, open(json_path, "r") as json_file:
        return marshal.dump(json.load(json_file), conf_file)
6

Or, write JSON converters for such types, which is a PITA :wink:

7

Ok I can have a look at it tomorrow when I have time for it. But is it easy? I mean, is it worth it for just only change some things for some testing?

8

Yes, it is easy to use. Here’s a simple example:

import bge
import json

globDict = bge.logic.globalDict

globDict[1] = 'a'
globDict[2] = 'b'
globDict[3] = 'c'

# saving
with open('saveFileName.txt', 'w') as fd:
    json.dump(globDict, fd, indent=4)
    # Note: the indent argument is optional
    # but it makes the file fomatting a bit nicer

# loading
with open('saveFileName.txt', 'r') as fd:
    loadedDict = json.load(fd)
bge.logic.globalDict = loadedDict
9

Ok thanks I’ll try it tomorrow

10 
cont = logic.getCurrentController()
    if cont.sensors['S'].positive:
        logic.loadGlobalDict
        gD = logic.globalDict
        with open('globalDictJson.txt', 'w') as fd:
            json.dump(gD, fd, indent = 4)
            print('hello')

It saves nothing, but there are also no errors printed in the console and it prints ‘hello’.
Help?

11

Check your working directory. I think Blender defaults to its installed directory unless you start Blender by opening a saved file.

12

It’s writing, as Mobious says, to the Blender directory, as you’ve not provided a path

13

Ow, ok, I found the file, but this is the file:

{}

And since I loaded globalDict first before I saved it I should expect some more than ‘{}’

14

Check your script. It doesn’t look like you actually load the dictionary, you just reference the loadGlobalDict method without calling it.

15

Oh, thanks, I forgot to type () behind logic.loadGlobalDict,
It works now, thanks for all your help

16

Ehh wait a minute,
What did I do wrong, it doesn’t change the globalDict when I changed the json file thing:

    cont = logic.getCurrentController()
    if cont.sensors['L'].positive:
        logic.loadGlobalDict()
        with open('globalDictJson.txt', 'r') as fd:
            loadedDict = json.load(fd)
        logic.globalDict = loadedDict
        logic.saveGlobalDict()
17

You’re probably keeping a reference to globalDict, which is now the old dictionary (as in your extract, you’re assigning the dict, not updating it). To update the dictionary, replace “logic.globalDict = loadedDict” with “logic.globalDict.update(loadedDict)”

18

ehh, I’m really really sorry, I just forgot to connect the sensor to the python controller… sorry lol.
logic.globalDict = loadedDict does work but your method may work as well.