Fantastic, captureBlob looks more promising. Hopefully it works for my case :-)
Any dates on 0.5? Cheers Chris On Oct 29, 6:32 am, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Building from source is your best bet. > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Douglas Mayle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are there nightly or beta anywhere that I can use to develop against these > > features, or do I have to build form source? > > > On Oct 28, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Chris Prince wrote: > > >> The 0.5 release of Gears will contain two new functions on > >> ResourceStore: captureBlob(url, blob) and getAsBlob(url) > > >> You can find details here: > >>http://code.google.com/p/gears/source/detail?spec=svn2942&r=2942 > >> Click the "+" icon, or the 'diff' link. > > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I'm interested in this as well. Can you explain a bit more of how to > >>> map a blob to LocalServer? > > >>> On Oct 28, 4:02 am, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>> In my case, I would parse the string into data that can be imported > >>>> into a local database. > > >>>> Well, I guess if the data can be mapped somewhere on LocalServer, then > >>>> I can use xmlhttprequest to get it. > > >>>> Cheers > > >>>> Chris > > >>>> On Oct 28, 1:15 pm, "Chris Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>> That's correct, there isn't a Blob.toString() method. > > >>>>> Out of curiosity, how would you use the string after you got it? Did > >>>>> you plan to set .innerText or .innerHTML on some element? > > >>>>> What if you could map that Blob to a URL, using a method on > >>>>> LocalServer? Would that meet your needs? > > >>>>> (The LocalServer feature is in progress. On the other hand, it's not > >>>>> totally clear to me what toString() should return in all cases, since > >>>>> Blobs often contain non-String data....) > > >>>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Khookie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>>> 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.htmlandIcan'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
