Copy scrolled text to notepad on request?

[NatzW]

Hi, currently using v6.0, I have a text box on the a UIR which I use basically as a status window. By the end of the program it has scrolled down, I am looking for a way of copying all the text in that box to a notepad file if requested by user.

any ideas?

thanks

[Wendy L]

Hello NatzW,

I wrote a quick callback function that will save the lines of text from your textbox to a file.

First, you get the number of text box lines.
Then, by index, get each text box line and write it to a file.
Finally, Close the file.

NOTE: If you know the maximum length of a line of text that will be displayed in your text box, then
you can declare you text array to be that size.


FILE * outputFile;
. . .
int CVICALLBACK SaveToFile (int panel, int control, int event,
void *callbackData, int eventData1, int eventData2)
{
int numLines = 0;
int i = 0;
char text[MAX_LINE_LEN];

switch (event)
{
case EVENT_COMMIT:
outputFile = fopen ("OutputFile.txt", "a");
GetNumTextBoxLines (panelHandle, PANEL_TEXTBOX, &numLines);
for (i = 0; i < numLines; i++) {
GetTextBoxLine (panelHandle, PANEL_TEXTBOX, i, text);
fprintf(outputFile, "%s\n", text);
}
fclose(outputFile);
break;
}
return 0;
}


Hope that helps.

[NatzW]

Brilliant - thanks exactly what I needed