i'm using gears to write a local application, and i need to be able to get the full path of a file (such as an image) so i can insert it into my rich text editor. thanks to firefox's wonderful new security policy, i can no longer use a simple <input type='file'> to retrieve that value - all i get is the file name. i then tried the openFiles function in the desktop api of gears, but lo and behold - again, all i get is the filename - no path!
1) is gears just wrapping the browser's existing file input (in which case, it's not gears limiting access to the file path)? 2) if not, where in the source code for gears should i look to change this restriction? thanks, imran
