Local files in revBrowser

[Jan Schenkel]

--- On Thu, 6/9/11, John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if someone could shed some light on a problem I am
> having. The script below works fine running under MacOSX,
> but it does not want to work running under Windows ?.. 
> 
> If having the stack would help, I would send it to you.
> 
> I am really stumped... any help would be appreciated.
> 
> local browserID
> 
> on preOpenStack
>    set itemDel to "/" 
>    set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -2 of
> (the effective fileName of this stack)
>    set the loc of this stack to screenLoc()
> end preOpenStack
> 
> on openCard
>    /* get the path to the html file */
>    put  the defaultFolder &
> "/mapFolder/map.html" into adJustWindows
>    
>    /* replace the spaces, if there are any,
> in the URL filepath */
>    replace space with "%20" in
> adjustWindows
>    
>    /* set up the browser instance */
>    put revBrowserOpen (the windowId of this
> stack, "file:///" & adjustWindows) into browserID
>    revBrowserSet browserID, "scrollbars",
> false
>    revBrowserSet browserID, "showborder",
> true
>    revBrowserSet browserID, "rect",rect of
> image "browserimage"
> end openCard
> 
> on resizeStack
>    /* keep the browser 16 pxs from the
> bottom to be able to get to the resize window box */
>    set the rect of image "browserImage" to
> 0, 0 & "," & (the width of this stack) & ","
> & (the height of this stack -16 )
>    revBrowserSet browserID, "rect", rect of
> image "browserImage"
>    pass resizeStack
> end resizeStack
> 
> on closeCard
>    /* destroy the browser instance when the
> card closes */
>    if browserID is not empty then
> revBrowserClose browserID
> end closeCard
> 
> take care,
> 
> Dixie
>     

Hi Dixie,

Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft if things weren't slightly different in their world - but then the same can be said the other way around about Apple ;-)

Anyway, here's a blog entry from MS HQ which should be of interest:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx>

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.
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