Re: adding filter to file upload in gwt

Jim,

Thanks for your help.

Aman

On Jul 7, 10:56 am, aman <bhatia.ama...@gmail.com> 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 the "All files" option but now it seems that it is
> browser dependent so I am looking for some other options.Please
> suggest me some other way which do not bring browser dependency in
> picture.
>
> On Jul 7, 10:39 am, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote:
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> > I'm actually surprised that it worked; what browser, and how did it
> > represent that setting to the user?
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> > 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 offiletypes to accept".  How it does that is up to the
> > browser, and the browser is free to give the user the option to select
> > anyfile, notwithstanding your list of acceptable MIME types.  So
> > you're still going to want to validate thefilewhen the user clicks
> > the submit button.
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> >http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.file.html
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> > ⓘ accept = list of MIME types
> > Provides the UA with a hint of whatfiletypes the server is able to
> > accept.
> > A set of comma-separated strings, each of which is a valid MIME type,
> > with no parameters.
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> > On Jul 6, 10:06 pm, aman <bhatia.ama...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > 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?
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> > > Thanks,
> > > Amandeep
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> > > On Jul 7, 4:40 am, Jim Douglas <jdou...@basis.com> wrote:
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> > > > Untested, and no guarantees, but try something like this:
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> > > > 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-
> > > > officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet";
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> > > > myFileUploadWidget.getElement().setPropertyString("accept", mimeList);
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> > > > Reference:
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> > > >http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.file.html
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> > > > On Jul 5, 11:18 pm, aman <bhatia.ama...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > I am using the basic FileUpload control ingwtand wanted to add the
> > > > >filteron 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 wait for the Button submit event.
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> > > > > Thanks
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> > > > > Amandeep

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