ddailey wrote: >As an exercise in one of my classes, I've had students use SVG with >JavaScript to create familiar HTML-like form elements: buttons, radio >buttons, checkboxes, selects, text inputs, text areas, etc. (or at least to >see how close then can get to the familiar behavior of those objects.) >Managing the events associated with mouse activity is a good excercise. > >One thing that none of them has had any luck with, and I frankly have no >suggestions to help, is the <input type="file"> object. Is there anyway to >allow the user to peruse local drive space and based on the choice of a >file, modify the contents of a pure SVG document the way one would in HTML? > >I was about to declare the problem unsolvable, but thought I'd run it by you >folks to see if someone has a clever workaround. > > > It sounds to me like you are looking for a file upload capability. That is not native to SVG, although I thought I saw something about attempts to add it to future SVG specs.
I'm going to have to tackle this problem myself eventually, and what little research I've done makes me believe a good way to handle this issue is to put file uploads outside of your SVG document. That is, from the javascript inline of your SVG code, call a function in the parent HTML. Here is a very interesting article on how to upload files using Ajax, but it looks to me like it is IE only: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AJAXUpload.asp ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
