Arggggh. put Google maps URL weirdness

[Bob Sneidar]

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:
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> 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
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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. 
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> Gerry
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