Thank you this is very useful. As file names can also contain other characters that may be changed during urlEncoding I will have to experiment to take them into consideration as well. From what I can see I will need to convert apostrophes, parenthesises and commas back to their original characters.
Tore > 23. mar. 2016 kl. 14.11 skrev Trevor DeVore <li...@mangomultimedia.com>: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Tore Nilsen <tore.nil...@me.com> wrote: > >> It did not work. URLEncode also encodes “/“ to %2 and spaces to + as you >> can see: >> >> file://%2FUsers%2Ftorenilsen%2FDocuments%2FMultimedieLab%2FMusikk%2F01+My+My%2C+Hey+Hey+%28Out+of+the+Blue%29.m4p >> > > This is a function I use to convert filenames into file urls. > > /** > * \brief Converts a LiveCode filename to a file url. > * > * \param pFilename The filename to convert. > * > * Each item of the filename will be escaped and "file://" will be prefixed. > * > * \return File url. > */ > function fileConvertToFileURL pFilename > local theItem, i > > set the itemDelimiter to "/" > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of items of pFilename > put item i of pFilename into theItem > if i is 1 AND theItem contains ":" then next repeat # skip C:/ > > put URLEncode(theItem) into theItem > replace "+" with "%20" in theItem > replace "*" with "%2A" in theItem > put theItem into item i of pFilename > end repeat > > # [case 1] Windows C:/ paths need to start with a "//" > # [case 2] If path starts with "//" then it is a network path. Add > # an extra "/" so that domain is considered localhost. > if char 1 of pFilename is not "/" then > put "/" before pFilename > else if pFilename begins with "//" then > delete char 1 to 2 of pFilename > end if > > return "file://" & pFilename > end fileConvertToFileURL > > -- > Trevor DeVore > ScreenSteps > www.screensteps.com - www.clarify-it.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 _______________________________________________ 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
