The Gears docs state that a blob is an opaque block of binary data...
I don't think there is a way to manipulate file contents (or read
them) through Gears. I think Java applets (and maybe Adobe Air?) can
do that though.

On Jun 3, 6:27 pm, Anarchy Angel <[email protected]> wrote:
> im trying to make a little script that will let the user pick a file
> then display the name of the file then display its content and im not
> sure how to do this here is what i have so far:
>
> if(window.google && google.gears)
> {
>  var files = google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop');
>  var filecon = '';
>  files.openFiles(
>   function(file)
>   {
>    alert('You picked '+file[0].name);
>    filecon += file[0].blob;
>    alert(filecon);
>   }, {singleFile: true}
>  );}
>
> else{
>  alert('No gears found.');
>
> }
>
> any ideas how to do this?

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