something better than HTMLText, anyone?

[Slava Paperno]

Thanks again, Mike. I must be doing something wrong:

This works, and I see the google page in the browser rect:

   local tBrowserId
   put revBrowserOpen(tWindowId, "http://google.com") into tBrowserId

But when I add this line below those two:

   revBrowserSet sBrowserId, "htmltext", locHTMLText

where locHTMLText holds my HTML-formatted text, I see this error message:

execution error at line n/a () near "unknown browser id"

What did I do wrong?

Also, if I try: 

put revBrowserOpen(tWindowId, "") into tBrowserId

without a valid URL, i.e. with an empty string instead of
"http://google.com", I see the usual IE message "cannot display this Web
page. In other words, I don't know how to instantiate a revBrowser without
giving it a valid URL.

Can you help?

Slava

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mike Bonner
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 7:06 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: something better than HTMLText, anyone?
> 
> revbrowserset instanceId, propertyname, value should do it
> 
> IE
> revbrowserset instanceId,"htmltext",tHtmlVar
> 
> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Slava Paperno
> <slava at lexiconbridge.com>wrote:
> 
> > Right, thanks--I can do that if I save the HTML text first as an htm
> file,
> > then open it with revBrowserOpen() from the file. But I can't figure
> out
> > how
> > to avoid that step. Is there a way to pass the HTML text to
> revBrowser
> > without saving it on the user's drive as a file?
> >
> > Slava
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> > > bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of stephen barncard
> > > Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:30 PM
> > > To: How to use LiveCode
> > > Subject: Re: something better than HTMLText, anyone?
> > >
> > > Revbrowser. Display the html in a real, imbedded browser.
> > >
> > >  there should be an example stack included with your LiveCode
> package
> > > or
> > > folder.
> > >
> > > On 21 May 2011 12:18, Slava Paperno <slava.paperno at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a large database of relatively small texts in basic HTML
> > > format
> > > > (including very basic tables), and I need to display these texts
> in a
> > > card.
> > > > Cellpadding, cellspacing, and borders in tables must be
> supported.
> > > >
> > > > The HTMLText property of fields in LC supports a rich collection
> of
> > > text
> > > > styles, but not HTML tables.
> > > >
> > > > How would you display such HTML text in a card? The user needs to
> be
> > > able
> > > > to
> > > > adjust the font size of this text.
> > > >
> > > > When the user clicks a word in the text, my scripts need to be
> able
> > > to
> > > > extract the word that she clicked.
> > > >
> > > > Any tips would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Slava
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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