In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When you post something on eBay (and other places) you can use a 'browse'
>button on a web page to send a picture file from your hard drive to them for
>inclusion in your listing. Can the same kind of thing (not the same exact
>thing, of course) be done with a Python/Tkinter program that is running on a
>remote machine (that you logged into to start the program), but that's just
>using your computer's display (with X11 on a Mac, X-whatever on Linux,
>X-Win32 on Windows, etc.)? I've got an inventory program that runs this way
>and it would be nice if users could create a text file on their machine, but
>then have the program read that file and, for example, update item
>quantities according to information in that file. Things like that.
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In a fairly well-defined sense, no; an X server isn't privileged,
in general, to access the host filesystem. This is a *benefit*
for security reasons.
I'm sympathetic with your desire. One of us should return to the
topic later on variations that might suit you.
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