Setting url of browser widget, incompatible characters

Mark Waddingham mark at livecode.com
Wed Mar 23 08:36:36 EDT 2016


On 2016-03-23 13:22, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> You should use URLEncode().  For example:
> 
>     on mouseUp
>        answer file "Choose file"
>        put "file://" & URLEncode(it) into tUrl
>        put tUrl into field "url"
>        set url of widget "browser" to tUrl
>     end mouseUp
> 
> I'm just in the process of updating the documentation for the browser
> widget to make this clearer.
> 
>                                              Peter

Erg - see http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14015 and 
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15369.

Perhaps we need a 'standardUrlEncode/Decode' function pair for now until 
we can fix the anomalies in a backwards-compatible fashion.

Mark.

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