Simple text Editor App.. Saving Plain Text
Hi All,
I am trying to write my first text application in cocoa... I have got a working app from an Apple tutorial, however when saving, it uses the following:
Code:
- (NSData *)dataRepresentationOfType:(NSString *)aType
NSData *data;
[self setString:[textView textStorage]];
data = [NSArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:[self string]];
return data;
Which saves the content as not plain text. Is there anyway I can change the above to save as plain text ?
Any help / direction would be great! Thanks,
Perhaps something like this will work for you:
NSString *s = [textView string];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithBytes: [s UTF8String] length: [s length]];
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