It seems that Xwidget has few methods to open and read a data file. The Xwidget engine has a core to read RSS style data but no others seem to exist, which is a severe limitation.
So, if you know of a widget that opens/reads data files using anything other than the rsscore then please let me know, if there is any documentation please point me in the right direction. For the moment as a workaround I suppose I will have to resort to pure javascript but I'd really rather not.
Having looked into the problem, Xwidget's limitations lead me to think that I will have to create my next widget using the Yahoo Widget engine that has all this functionality built by default into the filesystem object. I can easily open/read data from files using this engine -
filesystem.volumes
filesystem.copy()
filesystem.createDirectory()
filesystem.emptyRecycleBin()
filesystem.emptyTrash()
filesystem.getDirectoryContents()
filesystem.getDisplayName()
filesystem.getFileInfo()
filesystem.getMD5()
filesystem.getRecycleBinInfo()
filesystem.getTrashInfo()
filesystem.isDirectory()
filesystem.isPathAllowed()
filesystem.itemExists()
filesystem.move()
filesystem.moveToRecycleBin()
filesystem.moveToTrash()
filesystem.open()
filesystem.openRecycleBin()
filesystem.openTrash()
filesystem.readFile()
filesystem.reveal()
filesystem.remove()
filesystem.unzip()
filesystem.writeFile()
filesystem.zip()
I would have preferred to use the Xwidget engine as this is what I am teaching myself at the moment and the widget I want to build is compatible graphically with my Panzer widgets.
I suppose what is wanted is a filesystem core to enable a file to be read and the data parsed. If the API to write core was revealed then perhaps it could be provided by the community.
Post changed from a request for help to a feature request.Statistics: Posted by yereverluvinuncleber — March 18th, 2016, 9:05 am
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