Setting url of browser widget, incompatible characters

[Peter TB Brett]

On 23/03/2016 12:11, Tore Nilsen wrote:
> This would work unless the file name contained space characters. Changing the script to replace space characters with %20 would rectify this problem.
>
> on mouseUp
>
> answer file "Choose file"
>
> put "file://"& it into tPath
>
> repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars of tPath
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> if char i of tPath is space then
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> put "%20" into char i of tPath
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> end if
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> end repeat
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> put tPath into field "url"
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> set url of widget "browser" to tPath
>
> end mouseUp

Hi Tore,

You should use URLEncode().  For example:

     on mouseUp
        answer file "Choose file"
        put "file://" & URLEncode(it) into tUrl
        put tUrl into field "url"
        set url of widget "browser" to tUrl
     end mouseUp

I'm just in the process of updating the documentation for the browser 
widget to make this clearer.

                                              Peter

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