This is not exactly true. Again, see the code I posted to Frank yesterday under the thread Re: Here's a question for yous...
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:50:26 +0100, Günther Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i don't want to stop your motiviation here, but a problem might be that > there's no "hidden" file input field. and if it's not a file input field > it's useless as we need the browser to do all the encoding of the content > into multipart/mime etc..... > > is it possible to add input elements using java in way that they don't get > rendered? > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:45 > An: Struts Users Mailing List > Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser > > Ah, didn't see this until I posted that form code :) > > This is what I was talking about with the "better ways to present the UI " > comment. I would have to test it, but I *think* you should be able to have > a single <file> element that is visible, with a number of hidden ones, and > for each file you select with the visible one you actually populate a hidden > one. Maybe have a listbox that the files get added to, and the user can > remove existing items or add new ones, something along those lines (I'm > thinking out loud here). > > There might be some scripting security issues there, I'd have to play a bit, > but I suspect it might work. That would give you your single browse and > upload button like you want. > > If this is something that is interesting to enough people, I would mind > throwing a real tag together with some options and such, perhaps a couple of > different UI presentations, etc. > > -- > Frank W. Zammetti > Founder and Chief Software Architect > Omnytex Technologies > http://www.omnytex.com > > Rakefet Bitton wrote: > > Frank W. Zammetti <fzlists <at> omnytex.com> writes: > > > > > >>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.) > >> > > > > > > > > Yes, you can have as many <file> elements as you want on a form. But > > wouldn't you have a "browse" button for each <file> element? What I > > was hoping is that when the user selects the "browse" button and the > > file chooser comes up, they could select more then 1 file. Do you know > how I might do this? > > > > Thanks, > > Rocky Bitton > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
