Getting The Contents Of An Editor Window

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Getting The Contents Of An Editor Window

Syntax	`geteditor(`caption`)`
See Also	addeditor

Description
Returns a character row vector containing the text currently in the editor window specified by caption , where caption is a character row vector. The new line character (ASCII code 10) is used to separate lines in the return value. The editor window must have been created using the addeditor function.

Example
The following program creates an empty editor window. If you enter information in it and then delete it by using its caption bar, the information will be printed in the command window.






clear

#

data     = fill(" ", 1, 0)

caption  = "Example: geteditor"

geometry = [100, 100, 400, 400]

callback = "Done"

addeditor(caption, geometry, callback, data)

#

function Done() begin

     global caption

     data = geteditor(caption)

     write("screen", data)

     delwin(caption);

end