Hi, first you can save files on a gears local store. This is the solution to keep files on a local computer. the second problem is to edit and save these files. I managed to do this using a signed java applet: - I access manually the file path, for exemple in linux computers: ~bob/.mozilla/firefox/<firefox's profile id>/Google Gears for Firefox/ localhost/<localStoreName>/file.doc - then I execute an apropriate program acording to the file type. Like that you can directly edit and save your file on the local store. Users just need to accept your signed applet. If you want my applet source code, just tell me. hope it helps.
On Apr 24, 2:57 pm, MMM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi frog, I'm trying to do something seemed to yours, I think. > I'm doing a gwt application that has an online editor for files > allocated in server. What I need is allow users to edit files while > offline. I'm trying to do this by Gears, but I don't get the way to > save a file on client computer. Have you got this?? How? > > I'd be very grateful if somebody can help me. Thanks > > On Apr 6, 9:41 am, frog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Eduard, > > I already try these functions but they don't give a path tolocal > > files. With this, i can just add to mylocalstore, files the user > > chose on his computer. > > Yes i tried a solution with this function: > > the user choose a place on his computer tosaveafile, he edits it > > and after with a call to the function openFile() he can just add thefileto > > thelocalstore of Gears. > > The problem is that is not a good solution because a user can loose > > the directory where he put thefile, it's better to just click to edit > > thefiledirectly,saveit, and that's all. > > Thanks for your response. > > > On 6 avr, 08:36, Eduard Martini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think this is what you need: > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_desktop.html > > > > On Apr 3, 4:24 pm, frog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi again, > > > > I was wondering now if it's possible to get thelocalpath to the > > > > store by a specific method from Gears which give me directly thelocal > > > > path without doing it by myself because i will have to treat all > > > > different cases depending on the OS and the browser... > > > > I can do it but it's quit annoying and i would like to know if Gears > > > > has already implemented that? > > > > thanks > > > > > On 2 avr, 16:27, frog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > hello, > > > > > my web application contains files which can be edited while online > > > > > with a client-side program using WEBDAV ( just by clicking an 'edit' > > > > > button, they can open the remotefilewith alocalprogram andsaveit > > > > > as if it was on his desktop) Now i need to do the same while offline, > > > > > that is to say, i need to open afilewhich is in mylocalstore with > > > > > a client-side program. > > > > > I managed to do it using a signed java applet (so i can access to > > > > >localresources) and reading thefiledirectly from the path to the > > > > > google Gearslocalstore. I don't think it's really clean to do it > > > > > like that so > > > > > Do you see an other way to do it?
