Sorry, that should have been.. Set the url to "file :///Users/steve/Dropbox/I <http://users/steve/Dropbox/I> TB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg"
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:03 PM Mike Bonner <[email protected]> wrote: > If you just need to see the image, you can do it by changing your method.. > > Instead of setting the htmltext, it should work to set the url to " > http://Users/steve/Dropbox/ITB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/99578 > 6d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg" > > I'm not expert, but I think there is some type of cross-domain security > thing interfering here. A web page shouldn't be able to force access to a > file on your system due to security, unless the page originates with you. > And I THINK that directly setting the html basically means there is no base > domain, so it will refuse to show the image. Again, not an expert, so i'm > just making a wag. > If you need more control, you can likely create an html file on the fly > and point your url to that, at which point you can use relative addressing > for your pictures. So, if you created the html file with your code in the > same folder as your stack, you could then place.. <img src=tempMedia/ > 995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg> into the file and it will > likely work. > > Another thing you might look into is running your own simple http server > (which LC now makes easy) so that you can set up a simple server and set > the url to http://localhost:8080/index.html (or whatever port number you > wish, and again, use relative pathing. > > Either of these 2 methods is easier than using long, easily mangled > absolute paths. I haven't delved into the self run server yet, but I > suspect you can do interesting things with it. (Or use the old revhttpd > stack which I HAVE used, and know that it works really well and can do > awesome stuff too) > > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:32 PM Stephen MacLean via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Almost afraid to ask this because I feel like it’s a path issue with >> Relative vs Absolute… Remote images display fine in a browser widget, but >> local image files don’t seem to. >> >> This works (displays the image) in script and in the message box: >> put "<img src=" & "http://www.trumbull-ct.gov/images/BoyScouts.jpg"; & >> ">" into tHTML >> >> set the htmlText of widget "finished_html_content" to tHTML >> >> >> This does not (Image not displayed) in script or the message box: >> put "<img src=" & >> "file:///Users/steve/Dropbox/ITB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg" >> & ">" into tHTML >> >> set the htmlText of widget "finished_html_content" to tHTML >> >> >> Sorry about bombarding the list! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Steve >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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