To clarify, my question is solely about the front-end -- i.e., I don't see a "natural" (API-based) way to make a menu item act like a link (aside from fetching content into an iframe). Menus, as far as I know, can only contain menu items, which can't be links. Or can they? I welcome any insight on that!
I guess a somewhat kludgy way would be to cobble an html widget onto a menu and try to make it look like another menu item ... I might end up doing that. (As you can see, I'm kind of attached to having a menu bar ...) On 02/20/2012 10:14 PM, Charles Law wrote: > I don't have pyjamas experience doing this, but I have added similar > functionality to other sites with a web2py backend. > > For the other sites, I create a link to a function that returns the > file. In that function, on the server, set content disposition to > attachment. I believe this tells the browser to download the file > instead of navigating away from the page. The line of code I used in a > web2py backend was this: > headers['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment; filename=%s" % filename > I would guess if you can create a link, or open a url, to the file, or a > function that serves the file, you can have the download dialog popup. > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Waterbury > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm probably being obtuse but can't see the easy way to do this: > in my app's menu bar, I'd like to have one of the menu items to > have an action that gets a binary file from a url. An iframe works > great if the content is html, but the thing I need it to get > is (ugh!) an ms word document (hateful, I know -- tell me about it!), > so I'd like to make the menu item behave as if it were just a > link so that it pops up a dialog so the user can save the doc > somewhere -- any easy way to do that? > > Thanks! > Steve > >
