pygtk: access text in a textview

[Ubuntuud]

Hi,
I'm creating a program with pygtk.
It's my first serious one. But I'm running into some problems with textview. I have the following code.

sw = gtk.ScrolledWindow();
sw.set_policy(gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC, gtk.POLICY_AUTOMATIC);
textview = gtk.TextView();
sw.add(textview);

Now I would like to access the text in the textview to save it.
And to open saved files.
How can I do that? I think I have to do something with textbuffers, but I don't know what.

Could anyone give an example? Thanks in advance!

[bradleyd]

you can look here http://www.moeraki.com/pygtktutorial/pygtk2tutorial/ch-TextViewWidget.html
there is a textview example.

[ohgod]

I believe textview widgets have get_text() and set_text() functions to manipulate the text in the widget.

[Ubuntuud]

OK. Thanks to the both of you!

[moephan]

You'll notice in the tutorial that to manipulate text in a textview, you get the textbuffer for the textview:

buffer = textview.get_buffer()

and then you can do all sorts of stuff, particularly deleting and inserting text, etc...

buffer.insert_at_cursor(text)

Cheers, Rick