Get URL from FileReference.browse

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#1

I would like to use FileReference.browse to allow a user to choose a file to load on their local system. But instead of using FileReference.download to load the file, I want to use the set of routines I already have to load the file. My routines just need a URL and so I just need to get the selected file’s URL in the Event.SELECT handler and pass that on to my routine.

#2

I’d be interested if fileReference.name returns only the file name or if it includes a file path when used on Adobe AIR

We use lime.ui.FileDialog internally which is pretty simple to use and does expose the full path directly.

This seems like a gap in our API because AIR uses FileReference for everything where we rely on string paths in the standard Haxe system APIs

#3

Trying to use lime.ui.FileDialog but don’t get a file dialog to appear on screen. This is my code which builds to HTML5 with no errors:

private function doFileDialog()
{
    fileDialog = new FileDialog();
    fileDialog.onSelect.add(processSelect);
    fileDialog.browse(FileDialogType.OPEN,"*.jpg;*.gif;*.png");
}

private function processSelect(str:String)
{
    trace(str);
}

Tried just fileDialog.browse() and still no dialog appears.

#4

Looked at FileRefernce source code and saw that in HTML5 it does not use lime.ui.FileDialog but js.html.InputElement. I have no idea how use that to call up a file browser dialog.