images in text fields - htmltext quirk?

[James Hale]

Hi,

I have a text field in which I display html.
I am currently setting the htmltext of the field to the html I want to display and all works as expected.
The context here is that I am displaying text content from an epub file.
Before displaying this text I do a bit of cleaning up to account for some of the non supported tags and adjust the heading tags to get a more usable appearance.
I would like to also account for those pages that may include an image.
These are specified as normal <img src=…> tags where the link is to a local file (originally within the epub archive.) 
According to the dictionary LiveCode translates the source of the <img> tag to an "imagesource" which can be an "imageURL".

I have struck two problems.
1: if the imageURL is of the form "http://.…" the image gets inserted.
   if the imageURL is of the form "file:/full_filepath" then nothing gets inserted.

 so the questions are a) can I have a local IRL as my image source? and b) what should the path be?

So far I have tried the full path from the boot disk down to a relative path from my livecode stack.

2: As I mentioned, if the URL is a http type then I do get the image inserted into the field.
However it covers existing text. My understanding is that the imagesource replaces a character but obviously the image size is ignored.
How do I allow for the size of the image?
In the files I have looked at that contain images the insertion is simple and the image sits alone on a line.

Any pointers to either of these confusions would be appreciated.

James

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