> > A second issue I ran into was an inability to effectively support a "Save > As" file dialog. "Save" works fine, as tw already knows the file path. > In fact, tw can save to any specified file path. The problem is that there > is no implementation of an interface for specifying that file path. If I > want to implement "load" I can do so by leveraging the built-in browser > interface for specifying a file to upload---I just introduce a form with a > "choose file" button, the browser takes care of the interaction, and I pull > the file path out of the form. But I know of no analogous way to get access > to the information produced by the browser's "save as" dialog---it only > seems to be possible to trigger that dialog via a server download, and > there's no way I can see to capture the necessary file path information on > the client. If anyone has a way around this, I'd love to know. If not, I'd > love to see it addressed in future tw development. > > I believe that Eric Shulman has done some work on this for Firefox and possibly other browsers too.
Cheers Jeremy > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [twdev] Dido---a > tiddlywikified database application Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:15:13 +0100 > From: > FND <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: David Karger > <[email protected]><[email protected]> > > > dido requires both files. it's using $.twFile to do the actual save, > > but it's using getLocalPath from FileSystem.js to identify the save > > path. [...] I wish that code had factored a little differently. > > That's very interesting - you might be the first one to use the code in > such capacity. It would be great if you could post those concerns to the > dev group*, then we could aim to refactor the code for improved reusability. > > > A related issue [...] is finding some nice way to support "Save As" > > and not just "Save". I can't find any way to run a file-save dialog > > that lets the user select a directory then enter a new file name. > > All that the browser offers natively is a file _load_ dialog, which > > only works for preexisting files. > > There are some browser restrictions, but IIRC they mostly block access > to parent directories - so different filenames should be possible. In > fact, the test suite does create a new > file:http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/browser/Trunk/core/test/js/LoadingSaving.js?rev=12337#L35 > > Best to bring this up on the dev group as well. > > > -- Fred > > > * http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tiddlywikidev%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
