RE: Problems opening HTML documents on Mac

[Hermann Giovanni Brandi Salinas]

No Buzz! The problem is that the navigator doesn't know what to open because
the route (I guess). I'm trying with another command of the Xtra to find out
if I can use it instead of the "open" command.

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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:58 AM
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Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Problems opening HTML documents on Mac


Open fails on a Macintosh if the application is already open.

Could this be the case?

-Buzz

At 4:09 PM -0500 9/11/01, Hermann Giovanni Brandi Salinas wrote:
>Hi list!
>
>I'm using DirectOS Xtra to find applications on both platforms. The Xtra is
>working fine locating the applications but when I'm trying to open an HTML
>document on a Macintosh simply doesn't open the document. The route
>recognized by Director is this:
>
>"La Mac:Proyecto:Archivos HTML:index.html"
>
>but the navigators use this sintax:
>
>"file:///La%20Mac/Proyecto/Archivos%20HTML/index.html"
>
>What I've found out is that when I'm locating the files Netscape and
>Explorer doesn't understand the ":" symbols so I've made this handler to
>correct the problem:
>
>on cambiaFormatoDeLigas
>   global gRutasArchivosHtml, gRutaArchivosHtm, contador
>
>   contador = the number of chars in gRutasArchivosHtml
>
>   repeat with i= 1 to contador
>     contenedor = char i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>     if contenedor = SPACE then
>       put "%" into char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       put "2" after char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       put "0" after char i + 1 to i + 1 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       contador = contador + 3
>     end if
>     if contenedor = ":" then
>       put "/" into char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>     end if
>   end repeat
>end
>
>
>and I'm using the
>
>on mouseUp
>open gRtuasArchivosHTML with aplicacionHTML
>end
>
>but I didn't have any result so I thought that maybe it was missing the
>file:/// so I modified the code to correct the problem:
>
>on cambiaFormatoDeLigas
>   global gRutasArchivosHtml, gRutaArchivosHtm, contador
>
>   put "f" before char 1 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "i" after char 1 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "l" after char 2 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "e" after char 3 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "/" after char 4 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "/" after char 5 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>   put "/" after char 6 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>
>   contador = the number of chars in gRutasArchivosHtml
>
>   repeat with i=6 to contador
>     contenedor = char i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>     if contenedor = SPACE then
>       put "%" into char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       put "2" after char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       put "0" after char i + 1 to i + 1 of gRutasArchivosHTML
>       contador = contador + 3
>     end if
>     if contenedor = ":" then
>       put "/" into char i to i of gRutasArchivosHTML
>     end if
>   end repeat
>end
>
>but it doesn't work either. Do you know what am I doing wrong?
>
>Thank you in advance!
>
>
>
>Hermann Brandi
>Training & Support Engineer
>
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