In the form design of an extension, how can I have an icon to select file instead of a poor Browse button ?

<input name="myFile" type="text" style="width:230px">
<img src="theSrc.gif" onClick="browseFile(document.myFile,true)">

Don't forget to put the following link in the head of your document (make sure that it links to the correct folder):
<SCRIPT SRC="configuration/Shared/MM/Scripts/CMN/file.js"></SCRIPT>

You can find a nice icon named browsefolder.gif in /configuration/inspectors/ I think.

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Thanks the icon is now correct. I should have though to. I've already done it that way.

But, the onClick="browseFile(document.myFile,true)" doesn't work. The pointer doesn't change, and nothing happen <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle>

I looked at the doc and found that there is a function dreamweaver.browseForFileURL() that allows the user to select file...But it doesn't work either. I've even tried to put the img into a &lt;a href="#" onClick="dreamweaver.browseForFileURL()"... but nothing too.

But there is more...When I'm using the &lt;input type="file" It works, but I cannot receive the DOM of this file...Strange. All I have managed to do is to read the content of the file. But being able to get all the Node of the files would be really helpful.

My goal is to scan some HTML file that the user select. Actually it is not needed that the user select a file, but I think it might be better for the user.

Self Answer...but for Waldo too

Waldo, the Event you have to set is not onClick but onMouseUp (onMouseDown and onMouseOut works too).

I still have to find a way to have the Nodes of the file...

Do you have any pointer. Suppose I have the file URL,I want to know about some specific tag...How would you do that ?

If I find before answer, I'll post a second self-answer <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi

Ai! I forgot about that. That is correct. Strange thing is that I just copied the script from a Macromedia extension that used a browse button. Maybe that makes the difference... the Dreamweaver events model does not seem to be like Netscape.

About your other question: I am sorry but I have absolutely no idea. When I come up with something I'll let you know.

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About your other question: I am sorry but I have absolutely no idea. When I come up with something I'll let you know.
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After having spend part of the late evening yesterday I found my way <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Well actually the way to do that is :

1. use dreamweaver.browsForFileURL() to get the file URL

2. use dreamweaver.openFileFromSite() to get the DOM of the document.

3. Then you have the DOM, you can use the function getElementsByTagName(<i>name</i>; to get a NodeList (which is an array of Node)

You could use other function to work on the DOM, but it worked fine for my purpose, so I'm happy.

I have finalized the first beta of my extension. I'll work on it a little today.

Do you think I should finalize it completely before releasing on UD or should I release more often ? I'll probably need betatester <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Are you interested ?

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi

Cool, so openFileFromSite() is the function that gets the document. That's what I have never done myself. Nice.

About the extension and test it: We have a beta extensions list at UDzone that you could post your extension to. ANd when you think it is ready and you submit it to our site then we also do some tests on it. So does the Macromedia Exchange.

So my advice: go for the beta extensions mailinglist (see our news archive for the link, or do a search on our site) and post your beta there.

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Well the function is indeed openFileFromSite()
but you have to be careful about the fileURL because, it will send you a relative url (relative to your site root), but when you'll try to open it with openFileFromSite, then it will be relative to your extension folder.

I'm developping a floater, so the extension file is in %dreamweaver/Configuration/Floaters and if I want to open help.html, it says that %dreamweaver/Configuration/Floaters/test.html doesn't exist.

So you have to concatenate getSiteRoot and fileURl to be sure you have the right file.

Another point I haven't solutionned up to now is : When the file you select is already open in DW you can't use openFileFromSite() to get theDOM. How can I get the DOM of a already open document that has not the focus of the user ?

Is there a function to know every opened document or something like that that I could compare against the selected file ?

Thank you

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi

Do you really want to do that? I think it would consume very much recourses when it is possible. We have an extension in our productivity category that remembers all used files in a DW session. Maybe that helps you.

Personally I would just add a note to the extensions interface stating that the file you are browsing to should not be open in dreamweaver already.

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Do you really want to do that? I think it would consume very much recourses when it is possible. We have an extension in our productivity category that remembers all used files in a DW session. Maybe that helps you.
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Well I just want to compare file name, not file content <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> This shouldn't use much ressources, should it ?

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi