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set-text

Arguments: (window text-edit-pane) string

Sets the contents of window (a text-edit-pane) to be string. For line breaks, the string may contain either single #\Newline or #\Linefeed characters, or #\Return #\Linefeed (CR/LF) pairs.

The other way to replace all of the text in a text-edit-pane (assuming that it is not associated with a multi-line-editable-text control) is to call clear-page on the pane and then write text to it with standard Common Lisp stream output functions (like format).

Note: set-text would actually work when called on certain other objects, but is too low-level for application use for all but text-edit-pane. Specifically, set-text would also set the contents of a multi-line-editable-text control, but (setf value) should be used instead so that the control's current value will reflect the current string. Similarly, set-text would set the title of a frame-window (as well as other things), but (setf title) should be used instead so that the window will remember the title.

See also get-text, which returns (as a string) the text in a text-edit-pane and in text controls.


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