[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 32, Issue 69

[Pine Marten]

Thank you John for the code but I still can't get it to work and to simply 
save the contents of the text box to a file.  Here is the code I have which 
just makes a panel with a text control and two buttons, "Save" and "Save 
As..."  My hope is this can easily incorporate the changes you suggest, but 
I can't figure out how to do it:

#Boa:Frame:Frame1

import wx

def create(parent):
    return Frame1(parent)

[wxID_FRAME1, wxID_FRAME1PANEL1, wxID_FRAME1SAVE, wxID_FRAME1SAVEAS,
wxID_FRAME1TEXTCTRL1, ] = [wx.NewId() for _init_ctrls in range(5)]

class Frame1(wx.Frame):
    def _init_ctrls(self, prnt):
        # generated method, don't edit
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, id=wxID_FRAME1, name='', parent=prnt,
              pos=wx.Point(367, 109), size=wx.Size(402, 489),
              style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE, title='Frame1')
        self.SetClientSize(wx.Size(394, 455))

        self.panel1 = wx.Panel(id=wxID_FRAME1PANEL1, name='panel1', 
parent=self,
              pos=wx.Point(0, 0), size=wx.Size(394, 455),
              style=wx.TAB_TRAVERSAL)

        self.textCtrl1 = wx.TextCtrl(id=wxID_FRAME1TEXTCTRL1, 
name='textCtrl1',
              parent=self.panel1, pos=wx.Point(40, 56), size=wx.Size(264, 
248),
              style=wx.TE_MULTILINE, value='textCtrl1')

        self.Save = wx.Button(id=wxID_FRAME1SAVE, label='Save', name='Save',
              parent=self.panel1, pos=wx.Point(152, 32), size=wx.Size(75, 
23),
              style=0)
        self.Save.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnSaveButton, id=wxID_FRAME1SAVE)

        self.saveas = wx.Button(id=wxID_FRAME1SAVEAS, label='Save as...',
              name='saveas', parent=self.panel1, pos=wx.Point(232, 32),
              size=wx.Size(75, 23), style=0)
        self.saveas.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.OnSaveasButton,
              id=wxID_FRAME1SAVEAS)

    def __init__(self, parent):
        self._init_ctrls(parent)

    def OnSaveButton(self, event):
        event.Skip()

    def OnSaveasButton(self, event):
        event.Skip()

If you or someone could show me how to insert the save function into this 
properly so I can get it to work in this simple case, I think I'll 
understand it better.  In the meantime I will continue trying, and I will 
read up on Alan's suggestion about learning to open, write, and close files 
generally.

Thank you,
PM

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