How do I set dictionary?

I'm rather confused on dictionaries. I think its just a mind blank but I've been tryna figure it out the last hour and a half and I can't.

I have a file called "achievements.json", I want to be able to set a dictionary to this so I can keep track of the completed achievements. I need this dictionary to be able to be edited in 2 different areas (menu and game) and I need to be able to read this data in the achievements tab. Everything I try for this just seems to complicated.

So yeah question is, how can I set a dictionary to a json file inside the project?

Your post is worded slightly ambiguously - I'm not 100% sure if you're trying to put dictionary data in a JSON file or load a JSON file into a dictionary. I'm guessing it's the latter?

There's two parts to this: getting the contents of the file, and putting them into the dictionary.

To get the contents of achievements.json, you can use the AJAX plugin > Request achievements.json (tag "loadAchievements")

AJAX is asynchronous, meaning this request will take a small but indeterminate amount of time to complete. That means we have to test to find out when the data has been loaded and is ready to use.

AJAX > On "loadAchievements" completed: Dictionary > Load from JSON string AJAX.LastData

Note the Dictionary accepts JSON in the following format:

{"c2dictionary":true,"data":{"item1":"whatever","item2":0,etc}}

okay, also to save this data i should save the dictionary to local storage correct?

Yes, you can export the whole Dictionary as a JSON string and put it in LocalStorage.

I guess you may or may not need to do this given that your JSON data is already saved in achievements.json? Not sure how your setup works :)

okay thank you!

Why doesn't this work? My dictionary isn't receiving any data.

Dictionary shouldn't be loading "Achievements.json". It doesn't know what that is. You need to tell it to get the data that you just pulled via AJAX.

It should be Dictionary > Load JSON: AJAX.LastData

what about with the third event?

Dictionary needs to load from LocalStorage.ItemValue

okay thank you!