How to export text from a text area box

[luke.pajer]

I have a TextArea box that I would like to be able to export the text to a .txt file by a click of a button. Is there any way to do this?

[david.wylie]

What do you mean by export?

Its text is available through

self.text_area_1.text

But I think you might mean something else?

[luke.pajer]

I am sorry for the poorly written question… what I meant was, is it possible to write the text from a textarea box to a new .txt file by a click of a button

[david.wylie]

I think you need something along these lines :

Is there a way to make a button download a file?

That’s a good question! The info is all in the docs, but we haven’t brought it all together into a tutorial yet. I have added “make a tutorial about file downloads” to our TODO list, but for now here’s a quick summary: Whatever you want to download is probably a Media object. (If it’s not already, construct one from a string with BlobMedia().) Any Media object that can be retrieved from the server has a url attribute. Just set that URL as the url property of a Link component, and when you …

You probably need to store the text as media in a data table then provide a link to download it.

I’m not able to knock up an example tonight but I will have a go tomorrow when I get a moment.