gfile: File selection form

In gWidgetsWWW2: Toolkit implementation of the gWidgets API for use with web pages

Description

This renders a file selection form within a small panel widget. There are two steps needed to transfer a file: a) select a file through a dialog, b) save the file to the server by clicking the upload button.

Usage

gfile(text = "Choose a file", type = c("open"), filter = NULL,
  handler = NULL, action = NULL, container = NULL, ..., width = NULL,
  height = NULL, ext.args = NULL)

Arguments

text	Instructional text.
type	only "open" implemented
filter	ignored
handler	optional means (to addHandlerChanged) to specify a handler for the default signal. A handler is a function with signature (h,...) where h is a list with components obj referring to the object emitting the signal, action containing values passed to the action argument, and possible other values.
action	Passed to handler to parameterize a call
container	A parent container. In gWidgetsWWW2 a parent container is not optional (though it can be substituted with the parent argument in some circumstances). The parent specifies the widget heirarchy and the ... argument is used to pass along arguments to layout the child component in the parent container. Typically, these are passed to the add method of the parent container.
...	Used to pass along argument to the parent container's add method and possible other arguments to the underlying ference class constructors.
width	width in pixels of component. Sizing in gWidgetsWWW2 is sometimes necessary as the arguments expand and fill are not well implemented.
height	height in pixels of the component.
ext.args	The contructors of gWidgetsWWW2 ultimately call an Ext constructor. The options passed to the Ext constructor may be added to or overridden by use of this argument. Values are passed in as named list components and with values converted into JavaScript objects by asJSObject.

Value

a GFile instance

Note

the svalue method returns the temporary filename of the uploaded file, or a value of NA. The property filename holds the original filename.

Examples

w <- gwindow()
gstatusbar("Powered by gWidgetsWWW2 and Rook", cont=w)
f <- gfile("Choose a file for upload", cont=w, handler=function(h,...) {
  galert(paste("You uploaded", svalue(h$obj)), parent=w)
})

gWidgetsWWW2 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:10 p.m.