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rherman
File Browser for user selection
Jun 27th, 2005, 7:24pm  
I am developing an applet that needs to prompt the user for a local jpg or gif on the their system. It then processes the image and creates a 3d mesh to be viewed and rotated. Can I write the file browser in Processing? Or is there a security issue with Processing applets? Thanks.

Rob
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Markavian
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #1 - Jun 27th, 2005, 8:14pm  
I put together this applet:
http://mkv25.net/applets/loadSigFromWeb/

I don't know how you would do file browsing in a web applet. I know you can load an image from a website, but if you want people to load images directly from their local drives you're better off having them download an application (standalone JAR package) or making it into a weblaunch package.

So that people could test online, you could supply a set of images that they could choose from that were dynamically loaded into the applet.
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rherman
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #2 - Jun 28th, 2005, 1:31am  
I could have them upload a file via some other manner as a temp file on the server that could be erased upon exit? Maybe?
Rob

Is that your personal gui library, or is there one for Processing?
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Markavian
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #3 - Jun 28th, 2005, 2:50am  
Thats a personal GUI library that I've written, you access the latest version here:
http://mkv25.net/MyGUI/
I'm currently scrounging together some documentation to go with it (see the /doc/ folder for javadoc comments).

Depending on the sort of web application you intend to develop I would be perfectly happy to upload an image, or images to use within to then use with Java applet.
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rherman
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #4 - Jun 28th, 2005, 9:09am  
how can you upload a file from the client to the server with Processing? I'll take a look at your gui library, thanks.

Rob
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Markavian
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #5 - Jun 29th, 2005, 12:25am  
I was thinking more of using PHP and webforms to upload files. I wouldn't know how to do it in java.
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rherman
Re: File Browser for user selection
Reply #6 - Jun 29th, 2005, 12:37am  
I will probably just do that until I complete the rest of the application, and then revisit it later to make it totally in Processing. Thanks.

Rob
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