Re: AW: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser
You can do this. There are many ways. They all use subterfuge, however, and facades. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:49:34 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, your right... I misunderstood the OP... I wasn't thinking like a multi-select drop-down. I would agree there is probably no way to do that with standard browser functionality. You'd have to get into applets or ActiveX controls, or something along those lines. But... If you took the form approach like I've shown, there's nothing to stop you from dynamically adding elements to the form as more files are selected. However, they user would have to select a file, click Add (or something like that), then do that again until they were done. If *that* would fulfill the requirements of the OP, I think that could be done. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if you keep the number of files constant. but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve that -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 An: Günther Wieser Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser
Re: AW: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser
I'd like to see even a trick version. Certainly you would agree that the standard browser controls don't allow for this... The only possibility I see is building your own drop-down-type control, but then you have to deal with the scripting security issues. If you can put something together, I can render it using my tag and then the example I posted fulfills what Rocky was looking for. Dakota Jack wrote: You can do this. There are many ways. They all use subterfuge, however, and facades. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:49:34 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, your right... I misunderstood the OP... I wasn't thinking like a multi-select drop-down. I would agree there is probably no way to do that with standard browser functionality. You'd have to get into applets or ActiveX controls, or something along those lines. But... If you took the form approach like I've shown, there's nothing to stop you from dynamically adding elements to the form as more files are selected. However, they user would have to select a file, click Add (or something like that), then do that again until they were done. If *that* would fulfill the requirements of the OP, I think that could be done. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if you keep the number of files constant. but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve that -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 An: Günther Wieser Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default
Re: AW: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser
Hi, Frank, Just look at what I sent you yesterday. On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:50:38 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see even a trick version. Certainly you would agree that the standard browser controls don't allow for this... The only possibility I see is building your own drop-down-type control, but then you have to deal with the scripting security issues. If you can put something together, I can render it using my tag and then the example I posted fulfills what Rocky was looking for. Dakota Jack wrote: You can do this. There are many ways. They all use subterfuge, however, and facades. On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:49:34 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, your right... I misunderstood the OP... I wasn't thinking like a multi-select drop-down. I would agree there is probably no way to do that with standard browser functionality. You'd have to get into applets or ActiveX controls, or something along those lines. But... If you took the form approach like I've shown, there's nothing to stop you from dynamically adding elements to the form as more files are selected. However, they user would have to select a file, click Add (or something like that), then do that again until they were done. If *that* would fulfill the requirements of the OP, I think that could be done. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if you keep the number of files constant. but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve that -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 An: Günther Wieser Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther
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just in case you wonder: it's not a text field, it's file field (input type=file name=Name maxlength=length accept=Mime-Type) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:24 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser Ah, I looked at it that he was selecting files from a directory tree, not entering into a text field Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser? Thanks very much. - 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] - 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]
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another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser? Thanks very much. - 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] - 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]
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Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser? Thanks very much. - 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] - 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]
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for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if you keep the number of files constant. but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve that -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 An: Günther Wieser Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser? Thanks very much. - 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] - 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]
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Ah, your right... I misunderstood the OP... I wasn't thinking like a multi-select drop-down. I would agree there is probably no way to do that with standard browser functionality. You'd have to get into applets or ActiveX controls, or something along those lines. But... If you took the form approach like I've shown, there's nothing to stop you from dynamically adding elements to the form as more files are selected. However, they user would have to select a file, click Add (or something like that), then do that again until they were done. If *that* would fulfill the requirements of the OP, I think that could be done. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: for sure there is no doubt on my side ;-) this is exactly what i meant if you keep the number of files constant. but as the originator of this thread alreay said: he looks for a solution of multiple file SELECTION. beside the applet i have no idea how to solve that -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:42 An: Günther Wieser Cc: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Betreff: Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser Just in case there was any doubt, here's the form from my web hosts' file manager I was referring to: form action=doupload.html method=POST ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data target=infofr input type=file name=file1 input type=file name=file2 input type=file name=file3 input type=file name=file4 input type=file name=file5 input type=file name=file6 input type=file name=file7 input type=file name=file8 input type=file name=file9 input type=file name=file10 input type=file name=file11 input type=file name=file12 br Overwrite existing files: input type=checkbox name=overwrite value=1 br input type=submit value=Upload /form I could think of some better ways to do present the UI, but that's the basic idea. Heck, throw that in a .tag file and your all set (in a basic way). -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: another solution would be to use (signed) java applets, which is (for the enduser) the best looking solution, but the effort to do so is REALLY BIG, so if you don't get paid like mad forget it -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:29 An: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: Multi-select file chooser 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.) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser wrote: this is standard browser behaviour, haven't seen any browser who would allow you to select more than one file. reason for that is that your form only includes one form field of type file, so how can the browser add more than one file in a way that your app understands this? the only chance for multiple file selection is to ask the user before generation of the form how many files do you want to upload, or by adding another file field to the form as soon as the user selects one (using javascript; but this is quite ugly and can make a lot of troubles with different browser or javascript-disabled ones...) or he/she upload a zip file... if there is someone outside who knows a better solution, let us know, this is a very common problem. kr, guenther -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nic Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 01. März 2005 00:17 An: Struts Users Mailing List Betreff: Re: Multi-select file chooser Wow, what browser is that? Can they hold down CTRL? (assuming Windows) Rakefet Bitton wrote: Hi, I'm using the file tag to select a file from my jsp. The default browser allows the user to select only 1 file at a time. The user can not multi select files or a directory. Does anyone know of a multi-select file and directory chooser? Thanks very much. - 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
Re: AW: AW: Multi-select file chooser
There isn't specifically a hidden element, you are correct, but you can hide a file element via CSS. I've done this before myself so I know it works. Hey, don't worry about killing my motiviation... At best you'll stop me from wasting my time later if you point out something that legitimately makes it impossible, at worst I'll just try it anyway and find out on my own :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com Günther Wieser 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]
