Manually trigger 'open file dialog' using plupload

The former solutions not worked on iPhones with plupload 2.1.2.

The following code did the trick (jquery needed):

$("#id_of_the_second_button").click(function() { 
    $('div.moxie-shim input[type=file]').trigger('click');
});

Fallback runtimes will become irrelevant as times goes by. This means that sooner or later, we'll be all using HTML5 runtime. In case that you are using HTML5 runtime, but don't use pluploadQueue(), this will work as well:

// Set up and initialise uploader
var uploader = new plupload.Uploader({
  'runtimes' : 'html5',
  'browse_button' : 'id_of_the_first_button'

  // Other options
});

uploader.init();

// Hook in the second button
plupload.addEvent(document.getElementById('id_of_the_second_button'), 'click', function(e) {
  var input = document.getElementById(uploader.id + '_html5');
  if (input && !input.disabled) {
    input.click();
  } // if
  e.preventDefault();
});

Ok. It doesn't seem possible to do this, so unless someone implements event handles for the silverlight and flash components i'm out of luck

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();
    }); 
}