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how to download files with Browser widget [message #443548]

Mon, 27 September 2004 23:22

Andreas Niemeyer

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi all,

I would like to download files inside a Browser widget. Is there a
workaround exists?

I have a problem to understand how the addOpenWindowListener() works:
I want to pass the expected open window link to open it in a new browser
or recall the setURL() method.

Many thanks in advance,
Andreas N.

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Re: how to download files with Browser widget [message #443573 is a reply to message #443548]

Tue, 28 September 2004 15:22

Christophe Cornu

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Andreas,

> I would like to download files inside a Browser widget. Is there a
> workaround exists?
What is the problem you are encontering? Which platform are you on?

> I have a problem to understand how the addOpenWindowListener() works:
> I want to pass the expected open window link to open it in a new browser
> or recall the setURL() method.
See the javadoc of WindowEvent for an example on how to handle WindowEvent.

If you can use a recent SWT 3.1 build (M2 for example), you probably want to
reuse or adapt the BrowserExample class at:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.exa mples/src/org/eclipse/swt/examples/browserexample/BrowserExa mple.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
That example can also be downloaded from the Eclipse download page under
"Example Plug-ins". It provides a convenient wrapper class around the
Browser widget to handle WindowEvent's. All you need to do is:
BrowserExample app = new BrowserExample(shell, true);

OpenWindowListener.open is fired by the underlying native browser whenever
it needs to create a new browser instance - e.g. as a result of javascript
window.open. The application typically create a new Browser widget and pass
it back to that event. This new Browser is used by the underlying native
browser to load an host the new content. That new Browser will fire the
typical notifications LocationListener/ProgressListener/StatusListener etc
as the content gets loaded. You don't call setUrl - it is taken care of by
the HTML engine the Browser widget is embedding when OpenWindowListener.open
returns.

Hope this helps,

Chris

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Re: how to download files with Browser widget [message #443623 is a reply to message #443573]

Tue, 28 September 2004 17:53

Andreas Niemeyer

Messages: 40
Registered: July 2009

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Christophe Cornu wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
>
> Hope this helps,

Hi Chris,

thank you for your detailed explaination and hints. I understand the
code and the use of the OpenWindowListener.

But I miss what I want, the possibility of downloading files from a
webpage within an anchor tag.

I use the Mac OSX version of eclipse, version 3.0.0/build 200406111814

Regards,
Andreas

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> Chris
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