mobile: pick image without importing?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jan 24 18:25:31 EST 2018


Brian Milby wrote:

 > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:16 AM Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >> Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile?
 >>
 >> I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the
 >> image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file.
 >
 > I’m not sure this is possible... due to the sandbox you can only see
 > paths of files in a restricted subset of the file system.

I figured as much, but it seems odd to allow file paths for audio and 
video files, yet not for images.

(Then again, I can't say for sure mobilePickMedia works at all since it 
only returns empty on Android in v9dp11).

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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