Hi Cole, I got Netscape 4.75 as my "first" browser but it will not open with this script. baOpenURL "file:///Macintosh%20HD/help.htm", "normal" or baOpenURL "file:///Macintosh HD/help.htm", "normal"
Tony Cole Tierney wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm troubleshooting a project with a new copy of Netscape 6.2 on a > Mac and discovered that baOpenURL with a local file will not work. > The problem appears to be related to url encoding and Netscape not > being open. > > Netscape begins to open then quits. Works fine with internet explorer. > > If netscape 6 is running however, it will accept the unencoded path > and display the local html in a new window. A new window is opened > even if the same file is already open in another window. (A little > odd for mac users.) > > I don't have an older version of netscape to try. Could anybody confirm this? > > baOpenURL "file:///Macintosh HD/help.htm", "normal" > > If I replace the space in the above path with %20, netscape will > successfully launch. > > At any rate, looks like I'll need to whip up some url encoding lingo. > Before I reinvent the wheel, anyone know where I might find some? (I > already tried the lingo 'URLEncode'. Doesn't work for local paths.) > > Thanks for any help, > Cole > > [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to > http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
