Local images and the browser widget

[Mike Bonner]

Sorry, that should have been.. Set the url to   "file
:///Users/steve/Dropbox/I <http://users/steve/Dropbox/I>
TB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg"

On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 3:03 PM Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you just need to see the image, you can do it by changing your method..
>
> Instead of setting the htmltext, it should work to set the url to  "
> http://Users/steve/Dropbox/ITB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/99578
> 6d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg"
>
> I'm not expert, but I think there is some type of cross-domain security
> thing interfering here.  A web page shouldn't be able to force access to a
> file on your system due to security, unless the page originates with you.
> And I THINK that directly setting the html basically means there is no base
> domain, so it will refuse to show the image.  Again, not an expert, so i'm
> just making a wag.
> If you need more control, you can likely create an html file on the fly
> and point your url to that, at which point you can use relative addressing
> for your pictures.  So, if you created the html file with your code in the
> same folder as your stack, you could then place.. <img src=tempMedia/
> 995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg> into the file and it will
> likely work.
>
> Another thing you might look into is running your own simple http server
> (which LC now makes easy) so that you can set up a simple server and set
> the url to http://localhost:8080/index.html  (or whatever port number you
> wish, and again, use relative pathing.
>
> Either of these 2 methods is easier than using long, easily mangled
> absolute paths.   I haven't delved into the self run server yet, but I
> suspect you can do interesting things with it. (Or use the old revhttpd
> stack which I HAVE used, and know that it works really well and can do
> awesome stuff too)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:32 PM Stephen MacLean via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Almost afraid to ask this because I feel like it’s a path issue with
>> Relative vs Absolute… Remote images display fine in a browser widget, but
>> local image files don’t seem to.
>>
>> This works (displays the image) in script and in the message box:
>> put "<img src=" & "http://www.trumbull-ct.gov/images/BoyScouts.jpg" &
>> ">" into tHTML
>>
>> set the htmlText of widget "finished_html_content" to tHTML
>>
>>
>> This does not (Image not displayed) in script or the message box:
>> put "<img src=" &
>> "file:///Users/steve/Dropbox/ITB%20pubEngine/tempMedia/995786d6-4429-4821-8b21-8e811289e12c.jpg"
>> & ">" into tHTML
>>
>> set the htmlText of widget "finished_html_content" to tHTML
>>
>>
>> Sorry about bombarding the list!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve
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