why don't you use an applet or something similar? that's the only way I can think of because Gears does not let you access the content of a BLOB.
amin On May 12, 1:36 pm, MG <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > Gears API lets me open a file on the client computer (through the > desktop interface), read it into a blob, cache the blob in the > localstore, and then let the user "download" it by providing the url. > > What I can't figure out is how I can process the data without a server > round-trip: let's say I want to compress the file using my own > compression algorithm, or look up keywords, whatever. There's no > security issues here: I can upload a file to the server, do whatever I > want there, and then let the user download it, and the browser will > let me do that. But how can I do the same thing without a server round- > trip? I thought that Gears API is designed to let me do things like > that offline, but I can't figure out the way. Is there a BlobToString > function? Or a way to cast 4 bytes of a blob to an int (and back)? > > Thanks, > MG
