I'm using plupload to client scaling of pictures before they are uploaded. I like the feature that it gracefully falls back to html4 if the user doesn't have flash, silverlight etc engines installed.
I want to be able to start the upload when the user clicks certain elements on the page and i want to handle the events (sometimes stopping a file dialog from opening). In fact i'd like to pop open the file dialog using javascript.
Ok, so HTML4 (or rather the browser, except chrome :P) won't let me do this, unless the user clicks a browse-button (or an overlay covering a browse-button), so when i get the fallback to HTML4 i'll accept that i can't do it, but most users will have flash or silverlight installed and they do not have this restriction. So my question is this:
How do i trigger the file open dialog in plupload (keeping in mind i only need the flash and silverlight engines to do this).
If someone is searching for the HTML5 solution, here it is:
var up= $('#uploader').pluploadQueue();
if (up.features.triggerDialog) {
plupload.addEvent(document.getElementById('idOtherButton'), 'click', function(e) {
var input = document.getElementById(up.id + '_html5');
if (input && !input.disabled) { // for some reason FF (up to 8.0.1 so far) lets to click disabled input[type=file]
input.click();
}
e.preventDefault();
});
}