> In my case I want to save my chat session in an html file which when > double clicked will open the file in the browser and will show all the chat > messages with their respective images of the people who are sending the > messages. How can I do this? One more thing my application is not document > based architecture. Hereby I am attaching the screenshot of my chat window.
Again, this is a very general question, so you'll get general answers. Please give this article a read - you're going to have to post more carefully to get useful feedback from the list. It is a great resource for getting effective help from technical mailing lists and is cited in the cocoa-dev list's guidelines: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html With that said, I'm assuming you know how to connect your Save As ... menu item to an action. If not, you'll need to review the introductory Cocoa documentation as you won't get very far without these basics. Assuming you know how to do the above but simply want to know how to approach the "export" problem, you'll need to create a method that does the following: 1 - Render as HTML: You'll want to render your chat session as HTML somehow. The *easy* way to do this is to (assuming you know HTML) construct a string that contains your chat transcript in HTML form. There are many ways to approach this - if you get stuck, search the documentation and if you can't find answers, ask specific questions of the list. Note that you'll probably want to put any stylesheet code *inline* in the document so it's self-contained *and* pretty. Relying on a separate .css file is lame. :-) 2 - Save the HTML string to a File: You'll need to get that string into a file. This involves prompting the user with a Save dialog. Read the documentation; this is easy. Once you have the target path from the user, you'll simply write the string to a file. See NSString's documentation - this is also easy. 3 - There is no step 3; you're done. That's all there is to it. Assuming the file is saved with a .htm or .html extension, it'll open in the user's default browser if double-clicked in Finder (or if opened with NSWorkspace's method - see its documentation, also easy). Assuming also your HTML string is well-formed, the web browser will display your beautifully (or not) rendered chat transcripts. -- I.S. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
