window:88: Expected Number

I am trying to run some code that read text from a file and places it in a variable, however I get the error

window:88: Expected Number

Here is my code:

local handle = fs.open(".settings/theme", "r")
theme = handle.readLine()
handle.close()

How can this be fixed?

How about the rest of your code?

Lyqyd, on 30 January 2016 - 12:57 AM said:

How about the rest of your code?

its too big to put here

Towtow10, on 30 January 2016 - 12:59 AM said:

Lyqyd, on 30 January 2016 - 12:57 AM said:

How about the rest of your code?

its too big to put here

Well, isn't that unfortunate.
You could put it on pastebin or something, but without your code, we can't really help you that much.
Though, I can tell you it's something about term.setTextColor receiving a non-number argument somewhere in your code, couldn't tell you where.
There's also another issue, if you're going to use .settings as a folder, you will break the CC1.77 settings api some way or the other.

Anavrins, on 30 January 2016 - 01:14 AM said:

Towtow10, on 30 January 2016 - 12:59 AM said:

Lyqyd, on 30 January 2016 - 12:57 AM said:

How about the rest of your code?

its too big to put here

Well, isn't that unfortunate.
You could put it on pastebin or something, but without your code, we can't really help you that much.
Though, I can tell you it's something about term.setTextColor receiving a non-number argument somewhere in your code, couldn't tell you where.
There's also another issue, if you're going to use .settings as a folder, you will break the CC1.77 settings api some way or the other.

term.setTextColor would be recieving something like this colors.red, that should work
its on line 3297 of http://pastebin.com/cbjqe4pE
and defaultTheme is the text in the theme file.

Towtow10, on 30 January 2016 - 01:22 AM said:

term.setTextColor would be recieving something like this colors.red, that should work

While that *should* work, that isn't what's happening in your code based on the error. Please post your code to pastebin and post the link here. Without seeing your code all we can do is guess.

Dog, on 30 January 2016 - 01:30 AM said:

Towtow10, on 30 January 2016 - 01:22 AM said:

term.setTextColor would be recieving something like this colors.red, that should work

While that *should* work, that isn't what's happening in your code based on the error. Please post your code to pastebin and post the link here. Without seeing your code all we can do is guess.

i did

You're setting the theme variable to a string in some places and a table in others. You should probably add some debug prints to determine exactly where the error is being thrown, though.

Lyqyd, on 30 January 2016 - 01:47 AM said:

You're setting the theme variable to a string in some places and a table in others. You should probably add some debug prints to determine exactly where the error is being thrown, though.

i dont quite understand what you mean by string in some places and a table in others.

Line 74 (table)

local theme = {}

Line 531 (string)

    theme = read()

Line 537 (table)

    theme = grayscaleTheme

Line 3298 (string)

        theme = handle.readLine()

Line 3302 (table)

        theme = grayscaleTheme

He's not setting it, he's using GravityScore's and 1lann's code. More than likely, and I hope this is the case, the file he's reading is full of a serialized table, in which he could easily just use this line:

theme = textutils.unserialize(handle.readAll())

Dragon53535, on 30 January 2016 - 04:09 AM said:

He's not setting it, he's using GravityScore's and 1lann's code. More than likely, and I hope this is the case, the file he's reading is full of a serialized table, in which he could easily just use this line:

theme = textutils.unserialize(handle.readAll())

stored in the file is

defaultTheme

which refers to line 76.
when I put defaultTheme instead of

handle.readLine()

it works, so why dosent handle.readLine()?

A string in a file is just a string, it doesn't "refer to" anything else.

Lyqyd, on 30 January 2016 - 07:03 AM said:

A string in a file is just a string, it doesn't "refer to" anything else.

ok, thanks