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Nalinda Bandara
Nalinda Bandara

Reputation: 25

Chrome extension development - open folder

I am developing a chrome extension for company internal use, what i want to do is open folder in explorer (design folder at internal server) when someone add the project id in a textbox and click the button,

ex:

'Y:\design\' + siteNumber

Can i do it using javascript?

Thanks! Nalinda

Upvotes: 0

Views: 242

Answers (2)

charltoons
charltoons

Reputation: 2001

Sort of. You would need to write a stand-alone application in a native language (like C++ or Java) that could execute the opening of the folder, then have the Chrome extension communicate with it through the NPAPI Plugin. You could keep it all in Javascript by creating a Node.js program that executes the open /path/to/folder command (or your OS's equivalent). Either way, that native program would have to be pre-installed on the user's machine. But this doesn't seem like it should be a problem if it is an internal project.

Upvotes: 0

Kingpin2k
Kingpin2k

Reputation: 47367

No, javascript doesn't have access to the local machine's files/folders.

Upvotes: 1

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