Anchor links in browser widget

[J. Landman Gay]

Thanks for the input, hh. I don't think load time is the problem since I 
waited several minutes while doing something else and it was still 
unresponsive. What I've gleaned from two days of fighting with it is 
that if you set the htmltext of a browser widget, it has no URL at all 
and so scripted references to anchor links fail.

If you set the empty browser URL to "http://libbrowser_dummy_url/" and 
try to attach an anchor to that, it still fails.

If you tap an existing anchor link in the browser, it will navigate to 
the linked text and sometimes the URL will change to 
""http://libbrowser_dummy_url/" by itself, after which using that URL in 
a script will work. But sometimes it doesn't change, the URL remains 
empty, and I haven't figured out why.

If you load the htmltext from a file on disk, the URL is set to the file 
path and it will respond to an anchor link sent via script. This is 
probably the most viable solution since I can write the text to disk 
first and then load it.

Re: layering. I can't use palettes since this is a mobile app, but 
that's good to know in general. What I need is a slide-out panel with a 
tree view widget that appears over the html page. It looks like that 
isn't going to happen.

On 4/1/19 3:37 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>> JLG wrote:
>> I may need to go back to the revBrowser implementation, since
>> layering isn't working with the widget anyway and internal links
>> aren't reliable.
> 
> The browser widget needs some time after a "reloading" (setting the
> htmltext in your case).
> 
> set htmltext of widget "browser" to empty
> set htmltext of widget "browser" to htm
> wait 10 ticks with messages --> may need even more time on preopenstack
> set url of widget "browser" to "http://libbrowser_dummy_url/#1234"
> 
> Moreover:
> = Canvas methods work with revbrowser on Mac only, nowhere else.
> = You can put a palette over a browser widget:
>    http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=152773#p152773
> = You can put a browser widget over a browser widget:
>    http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=172789#p172789
> 
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