thanx for the reply, i have seen a few ppl talk about putting it in the database then reading it but it just comes back out as a blob or best i could figure anyway.
On Jun 10, 1:32 pm, carise <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
