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foldface@yahoo.co.uk
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#1: Jul 23 '05
Hi
As the subject says, is this possible.
I'd like to drag a file onto a button and have the filename accesable within
that pages javascript.

Ta
F

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
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#2: Jul 23 '05

re: drag from outside web browser and drop


foldface@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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> As the subject says, is this possible.[/color]

Generally, no. What is outside of the browser is outside of
its DOM and thus outside of the scope of browser scripting.

Maybe you can handle that with the WSH. Windows and IE only,
of course.


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