DTEDITORAPPENDFROMFILE(3)

🎀 DtEditorAppendFromFile 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the DtEditorAppendFromFile library call page. It’s giving “append a file into a DtEditor widget” energy, and we’re gonna get through it together. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

DtEditorAppendFromFile — append data from a file into a DtEditor widget. no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include &<Dt/Editor.h>
DtEditorErrorCode DtEditorAppendFromFile(
Widget widget,
char *fileName);

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the DtEditorAppendFromFile function appends data from a file to after the last character in a DtEditor widget. After the data is appended, the insertion cursor is positioned at the new last character. slay.

The widget argument specifies the DtEditor widget ID.

The fileName argument is the pathname of the file relative to the local system.

For a complete definition of the DtEditor widget and its associated resources, see DtEditor(3). iykyk.

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🌸 RETURN VALUE 🌸

Upon successful completion, the DtEditorAppendFromFile function returns one of the following values:

• DtEDITOR_NO_ERRORS — The file is readable and writable. ✅
• DtEDITOR_READ_ONLY_FILE — The file is read only.
• DtEDITOR_NULLS_REMOVED — The file contained embedded NULL characters, which were removed.

Otherwise, if the DtEditorAppendFromFile function cannot append the data into the DtEditor widget, it returns one of the following values:

• DtEDITOR_NONEXISTENT_FILE — The file does not exist.
• DtEDITOR_DIRECTORY — The file is a directory.
• DtEDITOR_CHAR_SPECIAL_FILE — The file is a character-special device.
• DtEDITOR_BLOCK_MODE_FILE — The file is a block-mode device.
• DtEDITOR_NO_FILE_ACCESS — The file cannot be accessed.
• DtEDITOR_INSUFFICIENT_MEMORY — Not enough system memory is available to append the file.
• DtEDITOR_UNREADABLE_FILE — The file is unreadable for an unspecified reason.

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🌈 APPLICATION USAGE 🌈

If the data is in memory, rather than a disk file, the application should use DtEditorAppend(3). literally, don’t make it weird. 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Dt/Editor.h - DtEditor(5), DtEditor(3), DtEditorAppend(3).
• DtEditorGetContents(3), DtEditorInsert(3), DtEditorInsertFromFile(3), DtEditorReplace(3), DtEditorReplaceFromFile(3), DtEditorSaveContentsToFile(3), DtEditorSetContents(3), DtEditorSetContentsFromFile(3).

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