thank you, works great....
On Dec 22 2008, 4:41 pm, Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > captureBlob() allows you to assign an URL to a blob object. Handles to blob > objects can be obtained via the Desktop API. This sample here demonstrates > how to capture a local binary file as a blob and assign it to an URL - > > window.desktop = google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop'); > window.localServer = google.gears.factory.create('beta.localserver'); > window.store = window.localServer.createStore('test-store'); > > desktop.openFiles(function(files) { > for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) { > var file = files[i]; > var filename = file.name; > var fileblob = file.blob; > var url = 'http://' + document.location.host + '/' + filename; > store.captureBlob(fileblob, url); > > var link = document.createElement('a'); > link.href = url; > link.innerHTML = 'file'; > > document.body.appendChild(link); > document.body.appendChild('<br>'); > } > }); > > When you run the above code, you can select a local file (ie "foo.jpg"). > After you do that, you can access this image by going to > "http://yourdomain.com/foo.jpg";. This URL has offline access as well. > > Hope that helps, > Austin > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:16 PM, rDx <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I work on this project which needs large files to be uploaded on to > > the server. My plan is to get the file blob chunk it and send chunk by > > chuck to the server, I have the server code all figured out to glue > > the file and so on.... > > > after going thru gears documentation and message boards I released > > that gears doesn't support blobs to be stored in the sqllite db...only > > way to get this going is to > > Generate a unique URL for the blob; store the same in the db..... > > I tried and couldn't get this quite right. > > > It will be great if someone points me to a code sample or some pseudo > > code....
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