DtEditorGetContents(library call) DtEditorGetContents(library call)
NAMEDtEditorGetContents — retrieve the contents of a DtEditor widget
SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Editor.h>
DtEditorErrorCode DtEditorGetContents(
Widget widget,
DtEditorContentRec *data,
Boolean hardCarriageReturns,
Boolean markContentsAsSaved);
DESCRIPTION
The DtEditorGetContents function retrieves the entire contents of a
DtEditor widget as a string, wide character string or sized buffer of
data. The data is transferred from the DtEditor widget using a DtEdi‐
torContentRec, which indicates the type of data being transferred along
with the actual data. If desired, any soft line feeds (word wraps) can
be replaced with <newline>s.
The DtEditor widget tracks whether its contents have changed since they
were last saved or retrieved. Setting the markContentsAsSaved argument
to True retrieves a copy of the data without affecting whether DtEdi‐
torCheckForUnsavedChanges(3) reports that there are unsaved changes.
This is useful if the application needs a temporary copy of the con‐
tents.
The widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID.
The data argument is a pointer to a data structure to receive the con‐
tents of widget.
The hardCarriageReturns argument, if set to True, indicates that the
DtEditor widget should replace any soft line feeds (word wraps) with
<newline>s when saving the data. When hardCarriageReturns is set to
False, any line wrapped because it reaches the right edge of the window
is saved as one complete line.
The markContentsAsSaved argument, if set to True, causes the DtEditor
widget to mark that all changes made to date have been saved. When
markContentsAsSaved is set to False, the DtEditor widget does not
change its status regarding unsaved changes.
For a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated
resources, see DtEditor(3).
For a complete definition of DtEditorContentRec, see Dt/Editor.h - DtE‐
ditor(5).
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion, the DtEditorGetContents function returns
DtEDITOR_NO_ERRORS; otherwise, it returns DtEDITOR_INVALID_TYPE if the
Type field is not recognized.
EXAMPLES
The following code segment retrieves the contents of a DtEditor widget,
marking that all changes to date have been saved.
Widget editor;
DtEditorContentRec cr;
DtEditorErrorCode status;
Boolean markContentsAsSaved = True;
cr.type = DtEDITOR_TEXT;
status = DtEditorGetContents(editor, &cr, False, markContentsAsSaved);
if (status == DtEDITOR_NO_ERRORS)
printf("The contents are:\n%s\n", cr.value.string);
else
printf("Unable to retrieve contents of the widget\n");
APPLICATION USAGE
To write the data directly to a file, the application should use DtEdi‐
torSaveContentsToFile(3).
SEE ALSO
Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5), DtEditor(3), DtEditorAppend(3), DtEditorAp‐
pendFromFile(3), DtEditorCheckForUnsavedChanges(3), DtEditorInsert(3),
DtEditorInsertFromFile(3), DtEditorReplace(3), DtEditorReplaceFrom‐
File(3), DtEditorSaveContentsToFile(3), DtEditorSetContents(3), DtEdi‐
torSetContentsFromFile(3).
DtEditorGetContents(library call)