The ability to load a text from a file into any type of variable instead of exclusively scene variables

GDevelop general Feature requests
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Why?

Having the ability to directly load text from a file to, for example, a local variable would greatly improve quality of life when manipulating text files.

Instead of having to create a specific scene variable for each scene that might load the content of a text file, you could instead use local variables to temporarily store the content before it gets processed (for example through the “convert JSON to variable” action).

I do not see any technical reasons why we are restricted to importing file contents exclusively to scene variables, unless I am missing something crucial.

In that same breath, I’m also requesting that we allow any variables to be moved to and from JSON files, instead of exclusively local variables.

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They’re slowly moving in that direction. I hope eventually every event can use any type of variable including object variables. You shouldn’t need to use additional scene variables and extra events to store things in non-scene variables.