Adding a file browser

I want to incorporate a File Browser (e.g. Windows Explorer)
within an Authorware Application. Is there an Active X control
offering this facility or any other available options?

You can, of course, include the IE ActiveX control. That's so
married to
Windows Explorer I would think there's a way to 'change it'
from IE to
WE... If I enter 'C:' into the IE field, Windows Explorer
opens in a new
window...
In short, I'd think you could use the IE Ax control but not
sure how.
Maybe there's a variation on it (WE Ax?) that you could use
instead?
Apurva has an Xtra (or U32) for embedding a browser in
AW...maybe it can
be used for a file browser as well.
Otherwise, I echo Chris's reply.
Erik
TomWhite wrote:
> I want to incorporate a File Browser (e.g. Windows
Explorer) within an Authorware Application. Is there an Active X
control offering this facility or any other available options?
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Hi
I have added some file browser controls to a form which file fields in a table.
When i save the form the information in the table alters the path of the file to a string beingiing with F
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        <p class="standardparagraph2">When preserving family history, nothing can compare to sitting down with a Grandparent or Great Aunt or Uncle over a cup of tea; listening to them reminicse about the past. Unlike handwritten accounts, there is opportunity to ask questions or delve further into the subject. Even better, recording such conversations so they can be shared for generations to come.<br />
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The following audio files were created by Virginia (Stasik) Zarow at the request of Laura (Stasik) Schmidt and Carrie (Stasik) Kot. There were a total of five cassette tapes, ranging from 1 hour to a 1 1/2 halfs in length. Scott Freeson converted each tape to digital format and then they were broken down into various segments for a total of 7 audio files. It is recommended that you listen to each tape in the order presented to maintain the proper timeline and context.<br /><br /></p>
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Note: Virginia refers to her father as "tata", which is the Polish word for dad.</p>
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<span class="standardparagraph">What are the recollections you have about your parents, in particular their interests, their hobbies, and their lives and faith?<br />
What did your dad do around the house?<br />
How did your mom relax?<br /><br /></span>
<span class="standardparagraph">How did you celebrate holidays and birthdays? <br />
Did you go on vacations?<br />
What did you and your brothers do for fun?<br /><br /></span>
<span class="standardparagraph">What do you know about Jacob Sikora and Catherine Dziwak, the extended family and their faith?<br />
- Jacob Sikora and Catherine (Dziwak) Sikora<br />
- Michael (aka Patsy)<br />
- Magdeline (aka Chochi)<br />
- Angeline (aka Nellie) - includes information about Frank & their children<br />
- Elizabeth (aka Diane)<br />
- John<br />
- Peter<br />
- Walter<br /><br /></span>
<span class="standardparagraph"> What was the house like?<br />
- In the beginning<br />
- The 1936 flood<br />
- Renovations<br />
- The final demise<br /><br /></span>
<span class="standardparagraph2">Miscellaneous tidbits...<br />
- Polish Proverbs<br />
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<span class="standardparagraph">Summer of 1944 to December of 1945<br />
- Meeting of Frank Zarow<br />
- New Years Eve - 1944<br />
- Prom Night - May 1945<br />
- First boyfriend, Eddie Yesh<br />
- First job as a hygienist<br />
- Meeting of John Zarow<br />
- Enrolled at Indiana State Teachers College<br />
- Meeting of Ted Zaroff<br />
- Thanksgiving - 1945<br />
- Florian Stasik Airforce injury<br />
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- New Years Eve - 1945</span>
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- Takes job as cook/housekeeper<br />
- Break-up with Eddie Yesh<br />
- Frank Zarow passes away<br />
- Christmas 1946<br />
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- New Years Eve 1946<br />
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Thanks for any help :)

You are right this is a bad idea. You really want to implement delay loading. This means that your tree start out with only the top level folder expanded and dummy nodes in the folders that have children. Then using the expand events you can remove your dummy node and put in the real nodes before the tree displays the children. On the collapse event you can remove the real nodes and put back your dummy node (or you can leave the real nodes, that just means that eventually customers could have nodes for the entire system in memory, with a little work on their part:-). This way you only read the part of the file system that is visible and you only have the currently visible nodes in memory. I am sure you can find some examples of this technique.
While this could be done with the default models I feel that a custom model would be the way to go.
IL

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Mainly we are looking to implement this to limit what types of files are uploaded by users, so instead of telling them AFTER they upload the file, we limit what type files they can upload BEFORE they have a chance to upload incorrect file types..
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Found this old thread with what will suffice.. Adding a onchange event call to the documented javascript function will suffice to what they need: How to set "Files of type" when using a "File Browse" item.
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In JDeveloper 11g, whenever I type img src, followed by an equation sign, I expect to see the File Browse link being popped up along with all the files within the directory so I can easily pick the ones I need. Unfortunately, this function does not work, and all I get is "CDATA or ELExpression" being popped up which usually happens when there is no code insight. I am sure the File Browse and easy pick feature did exist before way back in the early versions of 10g. Is this a bug in 11g or it is a step backward by removing that feature although I don't believe there's a sound reason to.

Hi, I'm afraid I have got this issue since the first clean install. For all 11g versions I have tried on, there is no popup for File Browse, as you can see here:
http://s8.postimg.org/4wy23u6ut/image.jpg (Jdeveloper 11g)
On the other hand, when I checked the old 10g version that I have previously, it has that, just like below.
http://s21.postimg.org/aetyo97mr/image.jpg (JDeveloper 10g)
For all the above, I am using JSP page. Usually I would create a custom application, and then adding a new JSP. I believe this shouldn't result any peculiarity, as it's almost standard procedure.
Update: I think I've figured out. I didn't have image files in the directory yet. After I have put some images in the directory, I'm now able to see the File Browse.
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How to set "Files of type" when using a "File Browse" item.

Apex 4.0.2
Internet Explorer 7 +
I have a "File Browse" item on a page and need to limit the types of files display to just "text (.txt)" files. How can this be done? Currently, the "Files of type" list shows "All File (*.*)", "Pictures (*.gif,*.png)", and HTML (*.htm,*.html)". In the best case, I would like to not have the "Files of type" list and have the user just limited to text files. However, adding Text files (*.txt)" to the "Files of type" list is ok.
thanks,
William

Thought i'd do a bit of research after seeing Scotts wonderful ideas.
So it turns out, IE made the file item read only from version 8, for security reasons. Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/07/02/ie8-security-part-v-comprehensive-protection.aspx
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Historically, the HTML File Upload Control (<input type=file>) has been the source of a significant number of information disclosure vulnerabilities. To resolve these issues, two changes were made to the behavior of the control.
To block attacks that rely on “stealing” keystrokes to surreptitiously trick the user into typing a local file path into the control, the File Path edit box is now read-only. The user must explicitly select a file for upload using the File Browse dialog.
Additionally, the “Include local directory path when uploading files” URLAction has been set to "Disable" for the Internet Zone. This change prevents leakage of potentially sensitive local file-system information to the Internet. For instance, rather than submitting the full path C:\users\ericlaw\documents\secret\image.png, Internet Explorer 8 will now submit only the filename image.png.To resetting the actual items, suggestions I found were to replace the actual item. So instead of using $s, I just replace the element, with the existing element, causing it to re-initialise.
var htmldb_delete_message='"DELETE_CONFIRM_MSG"';
function fileCheck(el){
    if(el.value){
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        var validExtensions = ["csv"];
        var filename = el.value;
        var fileExtIndex = filename.lastIndexOf(".");
        var fileExt = filename.substring(fileExtIndex+1, filename.length);
        for(i = 0; i < validExtensions.length; i++){
            if(validExtensions[i] == fileExt){
                validFile = true;
                break;
        if ( !validFile || fileExtIndex == -1) {
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            var htmlContents = el.outerHTML || new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(el);
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}(obviously, replacing what you need to, to suit your page - i prefer scotts idea of passing in supported file types in the function, so would just pass in an array instead; but this is just for demonstration)
with an onchange="checkFile(this)" on the element attributes.
On a slightly un-related note, I found out IE doesn't support the wonderful indexOf function on arrays, that checks for the existence of the value in an array. Sucks.
Edited by: trent
Ah well, jQuery is there, maybe i should use that for searching arrays in the future.
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.inArray/
Edited by: trent
Forgot a demo link, for csv files: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=45448:16
Edited by: trent
Modify function. Didn't work in Firefox

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