Google Gears

[Jordan]

Some years ago I developed an application for resizing and uploading
images to my server using
google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop');
google.gears.factory.create('beta.canvas');

Recently, Google Gears arrived to end of life, stopping new functions
development.
Last week, google geas api stoped publishing, and my app stoped
working too. I had some technical problems for replacing gears.
We use this app in an restricted engine, it doesn't support HTML5 nor
Java, but supported Gears perfectly.

I select files with the input type=file (that is not multifile with
some IE versions, the most used in our offices),
read the contect of the images, but I need to put in a canvas for
resizing and uploading them breaking in chunks
I doesn't found any canvas.decode function to read the Blob file as an
image.

There is any place where to download the old APIs ? I can't access the
code
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.google.com/intl/es-ES/
apis/gears/gears_init.js" ></script>
As the main page sais "The code itself will of course remain open
source, and anyone is free to use it."

[Željko Mitrović]

Check your e-mail. I attached zip with gears JS
---
Željko
http://skitanja.blogspot.com/

"you can't stay young forever...
but you can be immature for the rest of your life"
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[Jordan]

Thanks Željko,

but I think that its also dissabled at google api or other libraries
(I also tried downloading gears_init.js last week)

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></
script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mydomain.com/js/
gears_init.js" ></script>

var desktop = google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop');
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'factory' of undefined

[Željko Mitrović]

Well you can always host it on your own server....

---
Željko
http://skitanja.blogspot.com/

"you can't stay young forever...
but you can be immature for the rest of your life"
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[Jordan]

I would try to host the files is I am abble to found gears source code

[Jordan]

I have found the source code for gears.

svn checkout http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

this command will download the source code, after this, I need to do a
makefile whit any parameter ?
what kind of file I will obtain ?

[Željko Mitrović]

You lost me there pal. All I ever needed is gears_init.js file and it is pretty easy to put it on your server and address it instead of some external file.

---
Željko
http://skitanja.blogspot.com/

"you can't stay young forever...
but you can be immature for the rest of your life"
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[Kevin Layman]

gears_init.js installed the gears plugin from google's servers which
is no longer an option.

You will either have to hire someone to create a similar installer on
your internal system or switch your users to Firefox portable 3x which
can install gears via it's extensions/plugins mechanism.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Željko Mitrović <the.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You lost me there pal. All I ever needed is gears_init.js file and it is
> pretty easy to put it on your server and address it instead of some external
> file.
>
> ---
> Željko
> http://skitanja.blogspot.com

[Željko Mitrović]

AHA! Now I understand you! I'm just sorry that I can't be much of a help to you since I'm only JS developer :(

---
Željko
http://skitanja.blogspot.com/

"you can't stay young forever...
but you can be immature for the rest of your life"
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[Jordan]

I tried to replace with the HTML5 objects, I select files from a input
file multiple, and for each I get the blob of the image (I select
images JPG). Process the image, and then upload as chunks to my
server.

The remaining task is the resizing functions.

I can't put the file in a img object as the file is local, not network
file, then I have to create a canvas context to put the image in, but
the canvas object hasn't the canvas.decode from gears. Any workarround
on how to doing these conversion ?

put the blob in a canvas object, and draw the full size canvas to
another canvas with the size required.
then with canvas.toBlob extract the image info and upload as normal to
my server.