Browser widget android local file problem

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

Hi Alan - setting the htmltext of the widget works fine for me. My map data comes from Bing. What is going wrong when you do that?

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> On Aug 24, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Alan via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Am having a problem loading a local file that displays a Google map on the Android emulator. LC 8.1.6.
> 
> I was also having a problem with local HTML files in general, but got that going. Using the same method for a dynamically created map document, located in the specialfolderpath("documents") folder doesn't seem to work. See below for code that doesn't work followed by code that works.
> 
> 1. Code that doesn't work is (using a file from the "documents" specialFolder):
> ---
>       put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "MAP.html" into tMapFile
>    -- tMapFile = /data/data/com.scruffmonkey.echidnaCSI/files/MAP.html   -- Why is the path /data/data/...  and not /data/app/...  as in the next example?
>       if the platform contains "android" then
>            set the url of widget "myMap" to tMapFile
>       else
>            put fileConvertToFileURL(tMapFile) into tURL
>            set the url of widget "myMap" to (tURL)
>       end if
> ---
> 
> 
> 2. While code that works is (using a file from the resources folder):
> ---
>      put specialFolderPath("resources") & "/data/fun_facts.html" into tFile
>     -- tFile = /data/app/com.scruffmonkey.echidnaCSI-2/base.apk/data/fun_facts.html
>      if the platform contains "android" then
>         set the url of widget "infoscroll" to (tFile)
>      else
>         put fileConvertToFileURL(tFile) into tURL
>         set the url of widget "infoscroll" to (tURL)
>      end if
> ---
> 
> 
> Any ideas why there's a difference between the resources and documents specialFolderPaths?
> 
> Why does the "documents" specialFolderPath here start with /data/data/  and the resources one start with /data/app/  ??
> 
> I've also tried setting the HTMLText of the widget but that also doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Help please! :-)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Alan
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