Help on saving Table View please

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#1

Is there a built in function I can use to save all contents of a table view as a text file?
Could anyone please post a snippet or something that i could use for that?

I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

#2

BTW, i forgot to mention, the TableView doesnt use any data sources.

#3

This is the third similar request I’ve seen today :wink:

I’m pretty sure your table uses a data source whether you specifically created it or not. The “contents” of a table view is stored in a data source. If you don’t create it, Xcode does.

You can simply write the contents (which is a list) of the data source of the table to a file and read it back again, like this:

set myDataList to contents of data source of table view "My Table"
set dataFile to POSIX file "/Users/Shared/saved myDataList"
set writeRef to open for access dataFile with write permission
try
	set eof writeRef to 0
	write myDataList to writeRef
	close access writeRef
on error errorMessage
	close access writeRef
	error errorMessage
end try

You can later read the data back from the file to a list and, if needed, dump the list back into the data source of the table by:

set myDataList to read dataFile as list
set contents of data source of table view "My Table" to myDataList

Tom
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