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[h3x1c]

Hey, everyone! I'm just now getting around to creating my own trainers, so I'm a Lua noob for the time being. =) I've tried a couple of things so far with what I'm looking to do, but to no avail. Here's the basic gist of what I'm trying to do:

I have a game that simply looks for a file in the same directory that the game's .exe is in. If it sees the file, it unlocks certain functionality. So, game.exe looks for unlock_file.patch in the same directory. Luckily, unlock_file.patch is just an empty file; only the file name is searched for.

What I want to add into my trainer is the ability for a user to click a button and it will create unlock_file.patch in the game's Steam directory. Again, I'm a complete noob so far, so this is what I've tried based on Google searching:

[Dark Byte]

use \\ instead of \ or use a [[ ... ]] string
and a selectdirectorydialog would probably be best


also,
check out the lfs plugin used here: http://cheatengine.org/download/savesession.rar

and check out how to use it: http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem/manual.html (if used in a trainer donvt forget to manually add it)

[mgr.inz.Player]

[h3x1c]

Thank you, Dark Byte and mgr.inz.Player! I'll give those suggestions a try here soon with my next trainer. I appreciate your help!