filesystem & system interactions?

[Jim]

How does a xuljet application interact with the local filesystem?

How can it spawn local tasks (like zipping or unzipping a file/directory)?

[Pavel Krivanek]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Jim <jtit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How does a xuljet application interact with the local filesystem?

There are special Mozilla components for this tasks.
See:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I//O
and
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Extensions_:_Example_Code_:_File_IO_:_jsio

> How can it spawn local tasks (like zipping or unzipping a file/directory)?

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/Running_applications
and
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIProcess

XULJet will provide wrappers for this taks in the versons

Cheers,
-- Pavel

[Pavel Krivanek]

Work with archives is provided by Mozilla components too, for some
inspiration see Pencil [1] - one of few JavaScript XULRunner
applications.

[1] http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Downloads/Application.aspx Pencil

-- Pavel

[Jim Tittsler]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 18:12, Pavel Krivanek <pavel.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Jim <jtit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How does a xuljet application interact with the local filesystem?
>
> There are special Mozilla components for this tasks.

[...]

> XULJet will provide wrappers for this taks in the versons

Thanks for the replies and the pointers. I've got some reading to do.
:-) It looks like an interesting combination of technologies.