You certainly can but yes, you will need an applet that runs a non native
file picker allowing more than one file or a folder to be selected from the
browser....etc etc The user will have to agree to the applet accessing their
local hard drive and of course be running a suitable browser.
(This shouldnt be a big deal if they really want to use such a feature.. and
you explain to them what is going on)
I do belive you can even gets the applets signed through verisign should you
go that far.
As for builing your own applet.
Since this is file uploading and rather complex most likely you'll need to
buy one and they are rather expensive.
Building one on your own would probably be a nightmare and there would
certainly be bugs with various things. Browser versions/mac issues etc etc
This page I found mentions the multiple file upload issue and also links to
a couple commerical products that handle it.
http://www.cjwsoft.com/aspgallery/pr...leup_multi.asp
"Tom B" <shuckle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> He wants a single input which will take multiple files.
>
> "mark4asp" <mark4asp#killspam#@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:81ajmv8p3g1dj0jc03nn5m930ihbif6f98@4ax.com...[color=green]
> > aspSmartUpload which worked well for me and was free
> >
> > <http://www.aspsmart.com/aspSmartUpload/>
> >
> > and it looks like it's still around.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 06:31:16 -0700, "x. zhang"
> > <xidong.zhang@giffels.com> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > >Thanks.
> > >
> > >Can we write some ActiveX component to do that job? I
> > >think there should be some way. But how?
> > >
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>No, you cannot do this, at least not in any of today's
> > >browsers, AFAIK.
> > >>You'll have to use multiple file inputs.
> > >>
> > >>Ray at work
> > >>
> > >>"x. zhang" <xidong.zhang@giffels.com> wrote in message
> > >>news:0f1401c37de6$743bc4d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> > >>> Hi Guys,
> > >>>
> > >>> We know that we can use <input type=file ...> to upload
> > >>> one file per time to the server. My question is if
> > >there
> > >>> are some way to upload multiple files per time to the
> > >>> server. (Of course, we can use <input type=file ...>
> > >>> multiple times and then submit once. But this is not
> > >what
> > >>> I want, because we have to click "browse" button
> > >several
> > >>> times to select multiple files before submit in this
> > >>> way.) "Upload multiple files PER TIME", I mean it. We
> > >can
> > >>> select multiple files in ONE time, submit in ONE time,
> > >>> and thus upload in ONE time. Are there any way to do
> > >that?
> > >>>
> > >>> By the way, the browser is IE 5 and later.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>.
> > >>[/color]
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