I do not think you can trigger a download in the response of an rpc call because it is XHR.
You should use other techniques like putting a link in the page when the rpc finishes which the user has to push, or do a submit of a form which writes its content in an iframe. - Manolo On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Neil Halelamien <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I'm not sure if I was quite clear -- what you describe is actually > more-or-less what I needed. I figure I need to transfer the contents of > someRichTextArea.getText() from the client to the server, and then trigger a > download of the file from the server to the client. Regarding the latter > part, although I haven't implemented it yet, this thread over on > stackoverflow seems to be what I need to do: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2822667/download-dynamic-file-with-gwt > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You don't have access to the local file system in that way. You could >> upload the text to the server, then send it as a separate file via a GET. >> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Neil Halelamien <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Does anybody have pointers on how one might go about saving the contents >>> of a RichTextArea to a file on a client's machine? Hopefully this question >>> isn't too general... >>> -- Neil >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Web Toolkit" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
