Problem with getting text from PlainTextEdit

Zetafunction

Via TabWidget as central widget my little programm displays a QPainTextEdit. What i want:

TabWidget which displays a custom PlainTextEdit (works)
a save function which saves the written text e.g. as *.txt file
This save-function should only save the text file which is 'active' in the TabWidget if multible tabs are opened.

The problem with my code is, that for some reason the toPlainText() function does not get the written text and prints 'None' if i want to print the written text.

from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QApplication, QMainWindow, QMenuBar, QWidget, QMenu, QMessageBox, qApp, QTextEdit, QPlainTextEdit, QTabWidget,QVBoxLayout, QInputDialog, QFileDialog
from PyQt5.QtGui import QIcon, QImage, QColor, QPainter, QTextFormat, QFontMetricsF
from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt, pyqtSlot, QRect, QSize
import sys
from PyQt5.Qt import QAction
from idlelib import statusbar
import numpy as np

class QCodeEditor(QPlainTextEdit):
   #some unnecessary code for this problem to customize the QPlainTextEdit

    def getText(self):
        print(str(self.toPlainText()))

class Window(QMainWindow):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        
        top = 50
        left = 50
        width = 1800
        heigt = 900
        
        icon = "src/icons/icon.png"
        
        self.setWindowTitle("Title")
        self.setGeometry(top, left, width, heigt)
        self.setWindowIcon(QIcon(icon))
        
        self.layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
        
        # Initialize tab screen
        tabs = QTabWidget()
        tab1 = QWidget()
        #self.tabs.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(36, 36, 36);")
        # Add tabs
        tabs.addTab(tab1,"Untitled")
        
        tab1.layout = QVBoxLayout(self)
        self.texteditor = QCodeEditor()
        self.texteditor.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(36, 36, 36); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: Bookman;")
        tab1.layout.addWidget(self.texteditor)
        tab1.setLayout(tab1.layout)
        
        self.layout.addWidget(tabs)
        self.setLayout(self.layout)
        self.setCentralWidget(tabs)

        
###Functions###
     
        def newfileEvent(self, name="Untitled"):
            widget = QWidget()
            tabs.addTab(widget, name)
            widget.layout = QVBoxLayout()
            textedit = QCodeEditor()
            textedit.setStyleSheet("background-color: rgb(36, 36, 36); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size: 15px;font-family: Bookman;")
            widget.layout.addWidget(textedit)
            widget.setLayout(widget.layout)
            
        def file_save(self):
            # S_File will get the directory path and extension.
            S__File = QFileDialog.getSaveFileName(None,'SaveTextFile','/', "All Files(*.*);; Text Files (*.txt)")
        
            text = QCodeEditor().getText()
            print(text)

SGaist

Hi,

You call print in your getText method and return nothing from it hence the result you get as returning nothing from a python method corresponds to "return None".

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Problem with getting text from PlainTextEdit