Edit:save()

Edit:save(file, [isrichtext], [encoding])method

Saves the Edit content to a specified file.

Parameters

file

A File object or a filename string, representing the file whose content will fill the Edit.

[isrichtext]

An optional boolean value indicating wether the file content is in RichText format, or not.

[encoding]

An optional string indicating the desired file encoding (See File:open() for possible encoding values). If omitted, uses default raw binary encoding.

Return value

This function returns true if it succeeds or false if it fails.

Byte Order Mark (BOM) is written to the file when "utf8" or "unicode" encoding is used.

Example


--! luart-extensions
import ui

-- create a simple window 
local win = ui.Window("Edit.save sample", "fixed", 520, 460)
local button = ui.Button(win, "Save as unicode",210, 10)
local edit = ui.Edit(win, "", 10, 44, 500, 410)

edit.font = "Courier New"
edit.fontsize = 8
edit.wordwrap = true

function button:onClick()
	local file = ui.savedialog()
	if file ~= nil then
		edit:save("test.txt", "unicode")
	end
end

win:show()

-- update user interface
repeat
	ui.update()
until not win.visible