[Plugin] FileSaver

Update : v1.1 <font color="red">22/10/2012</font> : possibility to save images.

You can now save Image on disk ! You provide a base64 string of the image, and you can save it ondisk.

As an example, I'm taking a snapshot from the webcam, and saving the image :

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/SaveImageDemo/demo.png" border="0">

The demo : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/SaveImageDemo/index.html.

The plugin : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/SaveImageDemo/pode_filesaver.1.1.zip

The .capx : https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/SaveImageDemo/SaveImageDemo.capx

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Something long waited for : the possibility to save files on local filesystem !

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/FileSaveDemo/demo.png" border="0">

I used the FileSaver.js shim to make the plugin works crossplatform (https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js). It should works with relatively new browser, but not necessarily cutting edge.

For the browsers that don't implement yet the FileSystem HTML5 API, the plugin at least open a new window with the right url set (base64, xml, and so on) to let you do a "right-click | Save as"...

For the moment, you can save text file and HTML strings as html files.

The demo : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/FileSaveDemo/FileSaverDemo.capx.

The plugin : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1412774/FileSaveDemo/pode_filesaver.0.1.zip

Planned for next version : save images and save binary blobs...

Edit : cleaned a bit my botched english...

Pode: providing solutions since 1832

^^

Good job, keep it up.

would this work on ios?

smitchell : no, because the WebKit build of Safari on iOS disable lots of things. But if you use PhoneGap, you can bypass that problem...

Gotch, it sounds amazing!

Pode

Great! I'll test it with my SpriteBank plugin.

Pode

It's a "world" plugin (appears in layout and is drawn), should it be a "object" plugin?

rexrainbow : ah yes ! It's because the template is copy/paste from another one I made. I'm going to change that in next release. Thanks !

Edit : I'm asking myself a question, because I'm not in front of C2. If you use an "object" plugin, are you allowed to have several of them, distinct from each other ? In fact, if you want to save several files, you need to have a "FileSaver" plugin for each file, to be sure that their content isn't mixed.

In my point of view, file saver plugin could have only one "action: save text to file" for saving text to file, which has two input parameters, one is source text, the other is saved file path.

It can be "pf_singleglobal" since there is no local data.

The plugin without "pf_singleglobal" is also great, it can save variables into object(plugin).

Looks promising! Especially for the upcoming EXE wrapper. Everybody will want to write savegames with a small picture, characters, read from INI file, etc.

Hey, I just tested it. It seems to not work in Firefox ?

And please guys, think about adding a custom icon to your plugins ;)

septeven

From Pode's description:

For the browsers that don't implement yet the FileSystem HTML5 API, the plugin at least open a new window with the right url set (base64, xml, and so on) to let you do a "right-click | Save as"...

rexrainbow

my mistake :)

how do I save to a local file?

I'm not getting.

When I save, it opens another page and displays the data.

lucassss : that means that your browser isn't recent enough to automatically save your file. What you see is a web page with your data, and you can do a right-click|"Save As".