Any possible way to write a text document ?

[Aaron Gray]

I know that there is probably no way to do this but, I would really like to
be able do this, so ...:)

Aaron

[Randy Webb]

Aaron Gray said the following on 11/10/2005 4:16 PM:

I know that there is probably no way to do this but,
To do what?
I would really like to be able do this, so ...:)

That depends, directly, on what you would "really like to be able to do".

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[Aaron Gray]

>> I know that there is probably no way to do this but,

To do what?

I would really like to be able do this, so ...:)

That depends, directly, on what you would "really like to be able to do".

Sorry Randy, forgot to include question in message.

Is there any possible way to write a text file from JavaScript to the local
machine ?

Aaron

[Randy Webb]

Aaron Gray said the following on 11/10/2005 4:56 PM:

I know that there is probably no way to do this but,

To do what?

I would really like to be able do this, so ...:)

That depends, directly, on what you would "really like to be able to do".

Sorry Randy, forgot to include question in message.

Is there any possible way to write a text file from JavaScript to the local
machine ?

Not in any kind of default security environment. IE has the ActiveX
FileSystemObject that can allow you to write files (providing it is
given access). Mozilla may have a comparable counterpart but I do not know.

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[Julian Turner]

Randy Webb wrote:

[snip]

Mozilla may have a comparable counterpart but I do not know.

XPCOM and XPConnect

Examples are given on this page:-

http://www.captain.at/programming/xul/

Regards

Julian

[Aaron Gray]

>> Is there any possible way to write a text file from JavaScript to the

local machine ?

Not in any kind of default security environment. IE has the ActiveX
FileSystemObject that can allow you to write files (providing it is given
access).

Thanks, I'll look in to that when I get some time.

Aaron

[Aaron Gray]

>>Mozilla may have a comparable counterpart but I do not know.

XPCOM and XPConnect

Examples are given on this page:-

http://www.captain.at/programming/xul/

Great. Thanks,

Aaron

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <3t************@individual.net>, dated Thu, 10 Nov 2005
21:56:29, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Aaron Gray
<an********@gmail.com> posted :

Is there any possible way to write a text file from JavaScript to the local
machine ?

Here the default assumption is Web use.

For that, write the data to a textarea and ask the user to copy'n'paste
it to where he wants it; or write it to a new window and ask him to use
File, Save As or equivalent. First, though, check that they work for an
arbitrary user and a page from a remote server.

To do that sort of thing in javascript run locally with WSH, which is
really Jscript, ask in a a Jscript group - see FAQ 2.2.

<FAQENTRY> The Jscript link in 2.2 should be copied or moved into 2.7.

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[Aaron Gray]

>>Is there any possible way to write a text file from JavaScript to the

local
machine ? Here the default assumption is Web use.

For that, write the data to a textarea and ask the user to copy'n'paste
it to where he wants it; or write it to a new window and ask him to use
File, Save As or equivalent. First, though, check that they work for an
arbitrary user and a page from a remote server.

Yes. I have considered that and will probably use that approach as it is
appropriate for the application I am working on but it would be nice to be
able to write files at some point.
To do that sort of thing in javascript run locally with WSH, which is
really Jscript, ask in a a Jscript group - see FAQ 2.2.

Probably just ActiveX in JavaScript to access WSH.

Aaron