Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread aman
Jim, Thanks for your help. Aman On Jul 7, 10:56 am, aman wrote: > I did not tested it on other browsers initially, now when I am running > it on IE it is not working it works well with google chrome with the > option of "Custom files" and "All files" in the browsing window.I > wanted to remove

Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread Jim Douglas
Aman, Please respond only on the list, not via private email. There are no other options. Assume that the browser is free to ignore the accept attribute, and validate the input when the user clicks the submit button. http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_input_accept.asp http://stackoverflow.com/q

Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread aman
I did not tested it on other browsers initially, now when I am running it on IE it is not working it works well with google chrome with the option of "Custom files" and "All files" in the browsing window.I wanted to remove the "All files" option but now it seems that it is browser dependent so I am

Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread Jim Douglas
I'm actually surprised that it worked; what browser, and how did it represent that setting to the user? Keep in mind that there's no guarantee that this will work in all browsers; the W3C spec says only that this "provides the user agent with a hint of file types to accept". How it does that is u

Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread aman
Hi, Thanks for your help it really worked,but it is also giving me the option in the browsing window to select "All files" can I remove this option? Thanks, Amandeep On Jul 7, 4:40 am, Jim Douglas wrote: > Untested, and no guarantees, but try something like this: > > String mimeList = "applicat

Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread Jim Douglas
Untested, and no guarantees, but try something like this: String mimeList = "application/vnd.ms-excel,application/ msexcel,application/x-msexcel,application/x-ms-excel,application/ vnd.ms-excel,application/x-excel,application/x- dos_ms_excel,application/xls,application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedo

adding filter to file upload in gwt

2011-07-06 Thread aman
I am using the basic FileUpload control in gwt and wanted to add the filter on the extensions allowed in the browsing window, which restrict the user to select only specific extensions (like xls,xlsx etc). Tell me how I can achieve this as I want to restrict on the browsing window itself and cant w