You can do this. There are many ways. They all use subterfuge, however, and facades.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:49:34 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, your right... I misunderstood the OP... I wasn't thinking like a > multi-select drop-down. I would agree there is probably no way to do > that with standard browser functionality. You'd have to get into > applets or ActiveX controls, or something along those lines. > > But... If you took the form approach like I've shown, there's nothing to > stop you from dynamically adding elements to the form as more files are > selected. However, they user would have to select a file, click Add (or > something like that), then do that again until they were done. If > *that* would fulfill the requirements of the OP, I think that could be done. > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > > Günther Wieser wrote: > > for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if > > you keep the number of files "constant". > > but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of > > multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve > > that.... > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 > > An: Günther Wieser > > Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > > Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser > > > > Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' > > file manager I was referring to: > > > > <form action="doupload.html" method=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" > > target=infofr> > > <input type="file" name="file1"> > > <input type="file" name="file2"> > > <input type="file" name="file3"> > > <input type="file" name="file4"> > > <input type="file" name="file5"> > > <input type="file" name="file6"> > > <input type="file" name="file7"> > > <input type="file" name="file8"> > > <input type="file" name="file9"> > > <input type="file" name="file10"> > > <input type="file" name="file11"> > > <input type="file" name="file12"> > > <br> > > Overwrite existing files: > > <input type="checkbox" name="overwrite" value="1"> > > <br> > > <input type="submit" value="Upload"> > > </form> > > > > I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic > > idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). > > > > -- > > Frank W. Zammetti > > Founder and Chief Software Architect > > Omnytex Technologies > > http://www.omnytex.com > > > > > > Günther Wieser wrote: > > > >>another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the > >>enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, > >>so if you don't get paid like mad forget it.... > >> > >> > >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >>Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 > >>An: Struts Users Mailing List > >>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser > >> > >>You can have as many <file> elements in a form as you want, and you can > >>process them all at once. My web host (LunarPages) has a decent file > >>manager, one of the functions it has is the ability to upload up to 12 > > > > files > > > >>at a time. > >> > >>I don't know of any single tag to render such a form, but that's really > > > > what > > > >>you need, and it should be trivial to write (although I'd bet it exists > >>somewhere). It's the server-side processing that *could* be tricky > >>(although I think Commons Upload would deal with it just fine, probably > > > > give > > > >>you a collection or something, I forget what the interface looks like.) > >> > >>-- > >>Frank W. Zammetti > >>Founder and Chief Software Architect > >>Omnytex Technologies > >>http://www.omnytex.com > >> > >>Günther Wieser wrote: > >> > >> > >>>this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would > >>>allow you to select more than one file. > >>>reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type > >>>file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your > >>>app understands this? > >>> > >>>the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before > >>>generation of the form "how many files do you want to upload", or by > >>>adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one > >>>(using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of > >>>troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or > >>>he/she upload a zip file... > >>> > >>>if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, > >>>this is a very common problem. > >>> > >>>kr, > >>>guenther > >>> > >>>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >>>Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 > >>>An: Struts Users Mailing List > >>>Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser > >>> > >>>Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) > >>> > >>>Rakefet Bitton wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Hi, I'm using the "file" tag to select a file from my jsp. The default > >>>>browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. 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