Hi James, Am 07.11.2012 um 08:30 schrieb James Hale <ja...@thehales.id.au>:
> Hi, > > I have a text field in which I display html. > I am currently setting the htmltext of the field to the html I want to > display and all works as expected. > The context here is that I am displaying text content from an epub file. > Before displaying this text I do a bit of cleaning up to account for some of > the non supported tags and adjust the heading tags to get a more usable > appearance. > I would like to also account for those pages that may include an image. > These are specified as normal <img src=…> tags where the link is to a local > file (originally within the epub archive.) > According to the dictionary LiveCode translates the source of the <img> tag > to an "imagesource" which can be an "imageURL". > > I have struck two problems. > 1: if the imageURL is of the form "http://.…"; the image gets inserted. > if the imageURL is of the form "file:/full_filepath" then nothing gets > inserted. the (very counterintuitiv) trick is to use BINFILE instead of FILE for local files in HTMLtext: "binfile:/full_filepath" Been bitten by this lately, too. > so the questions are a) can I have a local IRL as my image source? and b) > what should the path be? > So far I have tried the full path from the boot disk down to a relative path > from my livecode stack. Full path and BINFILE will work! > 2: As I mentioned, if the URL is a http type then I do get the image inserted > into the field. > However it covers existing text. My understanding is that the imagesource > replaces a character but obviously the image size is ignored. > How do I allow for the size of the image? > In the files I have looked at that contain images the insertion is simple and > the image sits alone on a line. Unfortunately the html SIZE tags (height/width) of images will be ignored by Livecode, so the image will always be displayed in its original size. You can however uncheck "fixed line height" to prevent more ugliness :-) > Any pointers to either of these confusions would be appreciated. > > James > > ja...@thehales.id.au > > Tel: +61 3 9386 2516 > Fax: +61 3 9386 1387 Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com _______________________________________________ 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
