Cool. Keep in mind that the methods described in the link below will only work in browsers that implement the HTML5 File API (e.g., works in IE9, but probably not earlier versions of IE).
Anthony On Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:07:51 PM UTC-5, dlypka wrote: > > This is going into a web2py app which I have running in a major U.S. > corporation. > So far it has 10 users who depend on it 24x7. > It is "saving their butts"... > Many thanks. > > On Nov 12, 6:33 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > An input field with type="file" will give you the upload widget. Then I > > suppose you'd need some Javascript to catch the form submission and do > > something with the file instead of submitting the form to web2py. That > > would require client-side Javascript and wouldn't depend on web2py. > > Seehttp://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/. > > > > Anthony > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:45:12 PM UTC-5, dlypka wrote: > > > > > Parse it on the local machine. > > > > > On Nov 12, 4:53 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What do you want to do with the file? > > > > > > On Saturday, November 12, 2011 5:12:39 PM UTC-5, dlypka wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a widget / technique in web2py forms to choose a file but > not > > > > > upload it?
