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kmo

Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

Does anyone know how you use the XULRunner open and save dialogs from Phobos? I need to get a filename back from the user interface into the pharo/phobos image.

kmo

Re: Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

It's Ok I think I've got it.

You can add a method like this to your main.js:

function doFileOpen() {
/* See: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:Open_and_Save_Dialogs */

var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
var fp = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/filepicker;1"].createInstance(nsIFilePicker);

fp.init(window, "Open File", nsIFilePicker.modeOpen);
fp.appendFilters(nsIFilePicker.filterText | nsIFilePicker.filterAll);

var res = fp.show();
if (res == nsIFilePicker.returnOK) {
var thefile = fp.file;
return(thefile.leafName);
// --- do something with the file here ---
}
}

Then call it from pharo with an evaluateJS method - if you return the filename from the javascript method pharo can pick it up:

MyPhobosComponent>>getFilename
|res|

res:= self evaluateJS:'doFileOpen();'.

Of course, you could build the entire javascript method as a string in pharo and call it using evaluteJS but it's simpler to put it into main.js as deaing with embedded quotes is fiddly.

Pavel Krivanek-3

Re: Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

Hi,

I will look at it and add the methods to the Phobos code. You have to
take into account that Phobos uses client-server architecture where
server can be on a different computer. Then Pharo will not have direct
access to the file provided by XULRunner client.

Cheers,
-- Pavel

2014-08-25 11:10 GMT+02:00 kmo <[hidden email]>:

> It's Ok I think I've got it.
>
> You can add a method like this to your main.js:
>
> function doFileOpen() {
> /* See:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XUL_Tutorial:Open_and_Save_Dialogs */
>
> var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
> var fp =
> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/filepicker;1"].createInstance(nsIFilePicker);
>
> fp.init(window, "Open File", nsIFilePicker.modeOpen);
> fp.appendFilters(nsIFilePicker.filterText | nsIFilePicker.filterAll);
>
> var res = fp.show();
> if (res == nsIFilePicker.returnOK) {
> var thefile = fp.file;
> return(thefile.leafName);
> // --- do something with the file here ---
> }
> }
>
> Then call it from pharo with an evaluateJS method - if you return the
> filename from the javascript method pharo can pick it up:
>
> MyPhobosComponent>>getFilename
> |res|
>
> res:= self evaluateJS:'doFileOpen();'.
>
> Of course, you could build the entire javascript method as a string in pharo
> and call it using evaluteJS but it's simpler to put it into main.js as
> deaing with embedded quotes is fiddly.
>
>
>
> --
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>

kmo

Re: Phobos: Using open and save dialogs

Thanks, that's great. (I'm only thinking of running with client and server on the same machine at the moment).