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Description of MUSHclient world function: world.SendToNotepad


Name SendToNotepad
Type Method
Summary Creates a notepad and sends text to it
Prototype boolean SendToNotepad(BSTR Title, BSTR Contents);
Description

Creates a notepad window with the nominated title and contents.

The contents are copied "as is" without a trailing newline. If you want a newline you will need to add it yourself. The built-in constant "vbcrlf" can be used for this purpose in Visual Basic.

VBscript example
world.SendToNotepad "Nick's window", "Hello, world" & _
              vbcrlf & "another line"
Jscript example
world.SendToNotepad("Nick's window", 
                    "Hello, world\r\nanother line")
PerlScript example
$world->SendToNotepad("Nick's window", 
                  "Hello, world\r\nanother line");
Python example
world.SendToNotepad("Nick's window", 
                    "Hello, world\r\nanother line")
Lua example
SendToNotepad ("Nick's window", 
               "Hello, world\r\nanother line")
Lua notes
You can supply multiple arguments after the notepad name, which are concatenated together.
Returns 0: Window not created.
1: Window created OK

See also ...

Function Description
ActivateNotepad Activates a notepad window
AppendToNotepad Appends text to a notepad window
CloseNotepad Closes a notepad window
GetNotepadLength Gets the length of the text in a notepad window
GetNotepadList Gets the list of open notepads - returning their titles
GetNotepadText Gets the text from a notepad window
NotepadReadOnly Make a selected notepad window read-only
ReplaceNotepad Replaces text in a notepad window
SaveNotepad Saves a notepad window to disk

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