Saving NSTextViewData to RTF doc

Question

Trying to export NSTextView data to an RTF doc. My old code, mainly "filename" from NSSavePanel is depreciated. The docs state "use URL". How can I do this?

Thanks.

NSSavePanel *panel = [NSSavePanel savePanel];

[panel setAllowedFileTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"rtf"]];
if ([panel runModal] == NSOKButton){


[[textView RTFFromRange:
      NSMakeRange(0, [[textView string] length])] 
     writeToFile:[panel filename] atomically:YES];

}

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 20 '12 at 15:33

As the doc says, you should use the URL method of NSSavePanel.

The code will look the same, but you'll use the NSString writeToURL:atomically:encoding:error: method instead :

NSSavePanel *panel = [NSSavePanel savePanel];

[panel setAllowedFileTypes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:@"rtf"]];
if ([panel runModal] == NSOKButton){
    [[textView RTFFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [[textView string] length])] writeToURL:[panel URL] atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
}

Note the two parameters to specify an encoding (here I set UTF-8), and an error object. I give NULL here, but you would perhaps give a valid object to get error information.

Saving NSTextViewData to RTF doc

1 Answers1