Re: [Pythoncard-users] Import a file in TextArea

[Brian M. <mrb...@gm...>]

On 11/18/05, anrxc <an...@hi...> wrote:
>
> Hi, I have a little issue maybe someone can help me out.
>
> I created a MultiColumnList and a TextArea.
> In the MultiColumnList I display a list of files in some directory that
> contains txt files:
> def on_initialize(self, event):
> lista =3D os.listdir(pkDir)
> lista.sort()
> self.components.packs.Append(lista)
>
> And upon selecting a file in the list I want to display it's contents in
> the TextArea:
> def on_packs_select(self, event):
> base =3D self.components
> redovi =3D base.packs.getStringSelection()
> red =3D redovi[0]
>
> os.chdir(pkDir)
> f =3D file(red, 'r')
> for line in f.readlines():
> base.descs.text =3D line
>
>
> So this works, but I only get displayed the last line in the file.
>
> If I add "print line" to the end of the function I can see the whole file
> being printed to my terminal, so why TextArea displays only the last line=
?
>
>
>
In the "for" loop of file f the statement
base.desc.text =3D line
is SETTING base.desc.text to the latest value of line,
I think you want to be APPENDING the value of each line

for line in f: # f is enough, no readlines() is necessary
base.desc.text +=3D line # appending