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Getting Started with WebRTC

You're reading from   Getting Started with WebRTC If you have basic HTML and JavaScript, you're well on the way to adding real time, peer-to-peer communication to your web applications using WebRTC. This book shows you how through a totally practical, structured course.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166306
Length 114 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rob Manson Rob Manson
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Getting Started with WebRTC
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. An Introduction to Web-based Real-Time Communication 2. A More Technical Introduction to Web-based Real-Time Communication FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Real-time Video Call 4. Creating an Audio Only Call 5. Adding Text-based Chat 6. Adding File Sharing 7. Example Application 1 – Education and E-learning 8. Example Application 2 – Team Communication Index

Adding support for drag-and-drop


While it's easy for a user to click on the Share a new file button, it is also convenient to allow them to simply drag a file into the browser window. Previously we added two event handlers that deal with the dragover and drop events and we bound this to open_call_state which effectively fills the entire browser viewport. This means that you can now drag a file onto any part of the browser window to initiate the file sharing transfer.

First, we create the drag_over() function that simply prevents the browser from leaving our web page and loading the file that was dragged into it, which is the default browser behavior.

// prevent window from reloading when file dragged into it
function drag_over(event) {
  event.stopPropagation();
  event.preventDefault();
}

Then, within the file_input() function, we have some additional lines of code:

function file_input(event) {
  event.stopPropagation();
  event.preventDefault();
  var files = undefined;
  if (event.dataTransfer...
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