How to get full file path from drag'n'drop event?

[Dmitriy.trt]

Is there ANY way to get full file path from drop event? Through
extension, NPAPI plugin, anything. On Linux dropping files to textarea
gives us file:// URL. This is what I want on Windows. How can I get it
with Chrome 9 or 10?

[Boris Smus]

Try http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/dndfiles/#toc-selecting-files-dnd for a good tutorial on dragging in local files.

Hope this helps,

- Boris

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[Dmitriy.trt]

Unfortunately, this article doesn't help (I don't need to get contents
of file, just full path). I've inspected drop event object contents,
tried to use evt.dataTransfer.getData('text/uri-list'). Seems there is
no way to get it even from extension. Looks like I need another NPAPI
plugin for it. Am I missing something?

On Mar 18, 6:36 am, Boris Smus <s...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Tryhttp://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/dndfiles/#toc-selecting-file...

> a good tutorial on dragging in local files.
>
> Hope this helps,
> - Boris
>

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Dmitriy.trt <dmitriy....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there ANY way to get full file path from drop event? Through
> > extension, NPAPI plugin, anything. On Linux dropping files to textarea
> > gives us file:// URL. This is what I want on Windows. How can I get it
> > with Chrome 9 or 10?
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[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Yeah, I don't think there's a way to get this without NPAPI - there's little that a web app would really be able to do with this information.

~Arne

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[Chacko]

Dimitriy,

Were you able to get the relative path of a dropped file (relative to the ext folder)?  If yes, I would like to know the api you used to get this.  Thanks.

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

(+ Public group)

I'm not sure I follow.  The drag and drop action already specifies file contents, so you can upload dropped files.  The full path is pretty irrelevant.

~Arne

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:25 PM, j...@switchbook.com <j...@switchbook.com> wrote:

seems an obvious way for a web page to specify a file upload.

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