You might need to URL-encode your url inside the customText value. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/
Although your browser might helpfully do it for you when you are typing stuff into your URL window, the java program will probably not do it. The java libraries are extensive and no doubt have a function to do this. -Galt On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Michelle Ly <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps my question should have been: Do you know if there is a way of > adding a custom track programatically at all? How, in general, do I add > a custom track without going through this interface: > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgCustom . Should I be sending an HTTP > request instead? Or should the method below (ie. just opening a > formatted URL) work, as long as I have formatted the file/url correctly? > > It's not so much the Java I'm asking about, but more that I'm having a > hard time figuring out if this is even the right way to go about it. > > -Michelle > > On 12-06-12 10:50 AM, Greg Roe wrote: > > The only thing I can suggest is to make sure the URL in the new web > > browser window includes the hgt.customText parameter. > > > > - Greg > > > > > > On 6/11/12 4:35 PM, Michelle Ly wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I'm a new user to genome browsers. I'm trying to create a GWT > >> application that lets users select some parameters and then open a UCSC > >> browser. As a start, I have a button that just opens a custom track. > >> I'm testing with one of the examples provided on the website: > >> > >> > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=human&position=chr22&hgt.customText=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/ct_example1.txt > >> > >> < > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=human&position=chr22&hgt.customText=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/ct_example1.txt > > > >> > >> > >> It works when I simply copy and paste that url into a new window, but if > >> I try to open it via code, it doesn't work: > >> > >> Button b = new Button("Open", new ClickHandler() { > >> public void onClick(ClickEvent event) { > >> > >> Window.open(" > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?org=human&position=chr22&hgt.customText=http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/examples/ct_example1.txt > ", > >> > >> "_blank", ""); > >> } > >> }); > >> > >> It opens up a generic view of chromosome 22 instead. Any ideas? > >> > >> -Michelle > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Genome maillist - [email protected] > >> https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
