Hi Chris I know about openFiles, but as far as I know, you can't read the contents of the resultant blob can you? I looked at http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_blob.html and I can't find out how you can get a string representation of that blob.
Cheers Chris On Oct 28, 4:50 am, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hope that makes sense... > > Sorry, I still don't understand. > > Doesn't the openFiles() function already do what you > want?http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_desktop.html > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to import & export files on client-side Javascript when a > > Gears application is disconnected. > > > Example: when it's connected, it's not hard to do through something > > like server-side PHP & HTML (i.e. setting the Content-Disposition > > header for downloads & using <INPUT TYPE="file" for uploads)... but I > > would like that capability when it's disconnected. > > > Hope that makes sense... > > > Cheers > > > Chris > > > On Oct 27, 5:42 pm, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you explain a little more about what you want to achieve? > > >> I usually think of "access to blob contents" as building up a Blob > >> byte-by-byte. > > >> But for importing text files, that shouldn't be necessary, right? > >> Something like the openFiles() API would allow importing as Blob. > > >> (To answer your other question: one reason direct Blob access hasn't > >> been designed is that there haven't been many concrete use cases yet. > >> It's critical to have a number of important use cases before designing > >> and building a feature!) > > >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I noticed a few people in the past have voiced concerns about wanting > >> > to read the contents of a blob. > > >> > I was wondering what the issues are with reading the contents of a > >> > blob on client-side JS? I presume they're security related? > > >> > For my particular use case, I would really like users to be able to > >> > import text files into a local database while disconnected. Right > >> > now, I'm using copy & paste but having access to blob contents would > >> > be so much more usable. > > >> > And also, will client-side file writing be available in the future as > >> > well? Exactly like the aforementioned scenario above but exporting > >> > text files. > > >> > Cheers > > >> > Chris
