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the user. For this purpose, it may be beneficial to have a class
or global reference to theFile object, and even to reuse it:
<html>
<head><title>Browse for a File</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="AIRAliases.js">
</script><script>
var file = null;function doLoad( )
{
file = air.File.documentsDirectory;
file.addEventListener( air.Event.SELECT, doSelect );document.getElementById( "btnBrowse" ).
addEventListener( "click", doBrowse );
}function doBrowse( )
{
var filters = new window.runtime.Array( );filters.push( new air.FileFilter( "Image Files", "*.jpg" )
);
file.browseForOpen( "Select Photo", filters );
}function doSelect( event )
{
var elem = document.createElement( "div" );elem.innerText = file.nativePath;
document.body.appendChild( elem );
}
</script></head>
<body onload="doLoad( )"><input id="btnBrowse" type="button" value="Browse" /></body>
</html>