Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

[Mike Bonner]

ok, nevermind, you can't overlay the browser widget I guess.  Is there a
way?

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2 possible options I can see.. either have a 2nd browser widget with that
> page in it, and enable/disable hide/show or just move it out of the
> screenrect..  Though it sounds like all you're doing is putting an animated
> gif that you want to show during page load.   Can't you just pop it into an
> image object, and then overlay it however you like on top of the browser
> widget. hide/show/enable/disable as needed?
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
> use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> @ Mike… thanks…
>>
>> duh! (as he slaps himself on the side of the head)  I was mixing up the
>> props
>>
>> the htmltext # with
>> the url
>>
>> this is all static content so all that was needed was,
>>
>> assets
>>    /info
>>       web-loading.html
>>
>>     <div class="container">
>> <img src="../img/global-icons/ajax_loader_big.gif" width="128"
>> height="128" alt="ajax_loader_big">
>> </div>
>>
>> and then this
>>
>> command setWebURL
>>    put path_Assets() & "info/web-loading.html" into tLocalPath
>>    set the uirl of widget "body"  to tLocalPath
>> end setWebURL
>>
>>
>> "of course"
>>
>> @ HH, thanks for the base64 method… I can use that in other instances.
>>
>> @ All, this really doesn’t get me what I want though, because as soon as
>> we set the URL of the browser widget to the intended remote web page, our
>> local page is of course "disconnected" the loader image is gone and the
>> user is *still* staring at a blank screen waiting.
>>
>> I must have been working too late and didn't see either of these to
>> things, which, are of course obvious.  I'll start another thread on loading
>> web pages/user notifications.
>>
>> On 1/6/18, 10:15 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mike Bonner via
>> use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Then load the file as a url appearing like so..
>>
>>     "file:///path/to/your/html/file/myfile.html"
>>
>>     At this point the browser widget has a path location so any relative
>>     addressing should work.
>>
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