Making it do something

Hey! This time, I wanted to implement some actual file handling. However, as I only touched the code a while ago, I had to reacquaint myself with the mess that is my code.

I eventually managed to understand how it works, and started to add some file handling. In my old code, I already had a few lines to open a folder picker, so I didn’t have to reimplement that. However, I had a save_path variable which the folder picker dialog and the folder path entry read and wrote to. This was overcomplicating things and made it slightly less efficient, so I scrapped those lines of code and just used the folder path entry instead. Then, I needed to check if the folder that the user entered or chose actually exists, which was prettey simple. I also added a visual indicator telling the user that it does not exist. I did the same with checking if a folder is empty.

After that, I made it generate an info.json into the folder:

Opening it shows that it generated mostly valid json:

The only problem was a trailing comma on the penultimate line. This was as simple as deleting a character from the code and now it generates valid json:

That’s it for now. Next time, I think I’m going to focus on refactoring and testing.