If the goal is to read a file and perform computations on the data, then that process belongs on the server, where it can be done in Java, and on a machine that has significantly more horsepower. Process the data as much as makes sense for your application, then ship the processed data over to the client as the final step.
On May 23, 9:39 am, Carsten <carsten.schm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Well, it is a binary file with point/spline-data. I need to construct > eventually Path objects out of this data and draw it on a canvas. A > byte[] would be the perfect data structure to hold this data. > > On May 23, 3:26 pm, Sebastian Gurin <sgu...@softpoint.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > in general you don't use byte[] or the bynary content of a file directly in > > the client side, unless you are making something *really special* like > > implementing image filters using html canvas or somthing like that. What > > are you trying to do or better, why do you have to read a file into a > > byte[] in the client side? > > > On Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:25 -0700 (PDT) > > > Carsten <carsten.schm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I think I should have been more clear. I don't want to load a file > > > from the users computer. I want to read a file from the directory on > > > the server where my GWT app lives. I just want to know the options I > > > have to read this binary file into a byte[]. I am very new with GWT :) > > > > On May 23, 4:53 am, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote: > > > > Not in GWT proper, and not reliably in all browsers. Start your > > > > reading here: > > > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+file+api > > > > > On May 22, 12:42 pm, Carsten <carsten.schm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > is it possible to read in a binary file in my GWT Java-code and > > > > > convert it into a byte[] ? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > Carsten > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > -- > > Sebastian Gurin <sgu...@softpoint.org> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
