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Re: EBL_Upload
TheEric wrote:
Mid to Late September, most likely…. I know ….
Cool. Looking forward to it. : )
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Not sure if this feature has already been requested – but I’d love to be able to set the image title/category/alt attributes when uploading. Now, we can upload a lot of images and set the image categories (which is great), but it’s a bit of a pain to have to then edit each image to set the title or alt attribute.
Last edited by jstubbs (2008-08-19 19:16:22)
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hmmm. js anyone?
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Mr. Dale : The latest version is already using JS and only uses the SWF for the multiple select / upload. Everything else is pure HTML/JS.
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ok, sounds good. Sorry to be the Flash police ;)
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#81 2008-08-20 03:47:56
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
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not a problem with the plugin really – but I had issues when using on a site that had .htaccess password protection
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Ok. So I’ve rewritten the core routine, and it’s now 1. Fully Object Oriented 2. CS3 3. Makes use of the Flash 10 fix. Progressing so far.
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Ok. Here are the details as it relates to Flash Player 10 and the browse() method.
Adobe has decided that external javascript invoked calls that invoke the filereference()/filereferencelist() are a security risk, and thus, this windows file-browse function only works if somewhere above it on the call stack is a user event handler, such as MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP. The simple translation – it must be triggered by a FLASH button. This whole issue sort of defeats the entire purpose for the most recent rewrite, and it does, almost. Everything aside from the browse-file button can be invoked by external javascript methods, with the button obviously being the sole exception.
I found a hackish method work-around that gets past this quite well. With a little CSS positioning and flash opacity, I can create an invisible “layer” above the browse-text that mimics a flash button, without actually looking like a flash button. Genius, I think…
The drawback to this now, is file weight. The SWF prior to this fix was a lean and trim 3k. With the fix in place, it quadruples in size to about 12k — Just for a silly invisible button! Sillyness, eh? Still, that’s over a 78k savings over the previous version.
Comments?
Last edited by TheEric (2008-09-04 02:16:25)
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Eric,
I don’t know that anyone will be bummed about 12k vs. 3k.
Like you said – you’re still trimming 78k from the previous version.
Look out for hurricanes – they all seem to be heading our way.
Looking forward to the release.
- )
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i think it would be great to have a multifile upload plugin that actually works, 12k is still VERY acceptable imo. Sounds great!
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Eric, not related to your post above, but is there any chance that this feature request might be possible?
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@jstubbs – the current version already does this in a limited fashion. The category can be set prior to uploading, and the alt & image title is set according to the filename. For the next version, I’m debating various methods to do this.
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Today I added a new feature that allows users to remove individual files from the upload queue prior to uploading. Previously in the older version, this wasn’t possible and the user would have to clear the entire list and requeue the files. Now, they just click on the file they want to remove, and POOF it’s gone. Here’s a snippet of this new code:
public function removefile (file:Object)
{
trace("removefiles [" + file + "]");
var totalqueued:Number = this.file_queue.length; trace(totalqueued); for (var i:Number = 0; i < totalqueued; i++)
{
if (this.file_queue[i].name == file)
{
trace(“remove1”);
this.file_queue.splice(i,1);
} else {
trace(“not found”);
}
}
}
Last edited by TheEric (2008-09-09 14:39:49)
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#89 2008-09-15 12:42:49
- nardo
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- From: tuvalahiti
- Registered: 2004-04-22
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Anyone on Textdrive/Joyent implemented this plugin successfully?
I keep getting error #2 … as reported in about page 3 or 4 of the thread – tried that workaround (htaccess in the root) but no go
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#90 2008-09-15 14:45:47
- masa
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- From: North Wales, UK
- Registered: 2005-11-25
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Did you also try generating a new serial no. according to Eric’s post? That did the trick for me on Textdrive.
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