Good catch! Window.open(url, name, features) works perfectly ... thanks Charles!
Steve On 02/20/2012 10:39 PM, Charles Law wrote: > Well I may have stumbled on the answer, but you'll have to verify it. > > The page I all javascript, and I set the url using: > window.location = downloadurl; > > I went to Window documentation to see if there was a way to set > location, and saw there is a function Window.setLocation() > > Oddly enough, the setLocation isn't in the api link here: > http://pyjs.org/api/pyjamas.Window-module.html > but it is shown in the source code the api links to here: > http://pyjs.org/api/pyjamas.Window-pysrc.html#open > > Maybe that would work? > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Stephen Waterbury > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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]> > <mailto:[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 > > > > > >
