I would imagine you have more than you think in the field. It probably contains a space, a tab or a carriage return, or some other invisible character. Try stepping through your code and looking at the contents of the variables. You will have to put the field contents into a variable to do this properly. Also, I would put the entire url into a variable first, then issue your put url statement with the variable. It's cleaner coding and easier to troubleshoot.
Bob On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:55 AM, Gerry wrote: > This works: > > put url > "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=canberra&zoom=8&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false"; > into someimage > put someimage into image 1 > > > > But when I use the text in a field in building the url it breaks - I get a > "bad request 400 error" from the Google server: > > put url "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center="; & fld "place" & > "&zoom=8&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false" into someimage > put someimage into image 1 > > What am I missing? When I write the string out to the message box and then > paste that into the url field in my browser, it works fine. > > Argggh. > > Gerry > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
