exporting glade text view to text file

on_a_work · 01-08-2011, 01:36 AM

I want to display something in my text view widget in glade using c code. that's all right.
now I need to attach a save button beneath the text view.so that on click the text view content should save as a txt file...possible?..any idea?

Snark1994 · 01-08-2011, 04:33 PM

What are you stuck with? As far as I was aware, Glade just creates the files for you, you need to code all the writing etc. yourself in C. So if you have added the button, then writing to a file on the disk just a matter of using some stdio.h functions...

on_a_work · 01-08-2011, 08:49 PM

i think there is some code for catching the contents of text view line by line and saving as a text file..ah?

Snark1994 · 01-09-2011, 04:53 AM

Given you've told us nothing about your code, I'm guessing you're using the Entry Widget, in which case a call to

Code:

const gchar *gtk_entry_get_text( GtkEntry *entry );

will get you the text inside it and then can be written to a file just like any string in C.

on_a_work · 01-11-2011, 05:36 AM

hope it will make a diffrence!!!thank you

on_a_work · 01-11-2011, 05:48 AM

can i export the text into text file?i need to make text files in different names in diffrent execution

Snark1994 · 01-11-2011, 06:20 AM

Yes... I assume you mean "write" to a text file, and if so, it can be done as follows:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

void main(){
    FILE *fp;
    fp = fopen("outputfile",'w');
    fprintf(fp,"Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon;\n egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam;\n spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam...\n");
    fclose(fp)
}

on_a_work · 01-12-2011, 09:10 PM

i know that code.but i need to create new file everytime.its like a log file.names should be different each time so that files not get overwritten.

theNbomr · 01-13-2011, 09:05 AM

A common approach to this problem is to make filenames containing time & date components. As long as there is only one instance of the program running, and the timestamp used is finely enough resolved, the names are guaranteed to be unique, and also have the benefit of carrying potentially useful information. With carefully chosen formats, they can also sort nicely.

For the basic information,

man ctime

--- rod.