Re: [Gambas-user] Using a relative file path for a WebView URL

[adamn...@gmail.com]

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 09:13:57 -0400
T Lee Davidson  wrote:

Thanks Lee, I'll give that a try!
b

> wvwPage.HTML = File.Load(path &/ "index.html")   ?
> 
> 
> On 06/02/2017 08:57 PM, adamn...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am trying to get a WebViewer control in a loaded library to display an 
> > html file stored inside the executable archive of a project using that 
> > library.
> > This appears to be not possible ... in the following the main project is 
> > calling the library form Run method with a relative path say 
> > "../help/html/index.html" (Note the use of the ../ to get the calling 
> > programs executable relative path!). The library code is as follows:
> > 
> > Public Sub Run (path As string)
> > If Exist(path &/ "index.html") Then
> > Debug path &/ "index.html exists"
> > wvwPage.URL = path &/ "index.html"
> > Debug wvwPage.URL
> > 
> > FHSView.Run.10: ../help/html/index.html exists
> > FHSView.Run.13: file:///home/ksshare/gb3projects/Tools/help/html/index.html
> > 
> >  From the above debug output it appears that the WebView control is 
> > "subverting" the actual path back into an absolute path.
> > Any comments?
> > 
> > I think I can extract the entire help directory out of the calling 
> > program's executable into the /tmp dir, but I think that then I will have 
> > to edit every link in the pages to a path relative to the /tmp dir. Painful!
> > 
> > Has anyone got any better ideas?
> > 
> > bruce
> > 
> 
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Re: [Gambas-user] Using a relative file path for a WebView URL

[T Lee Davidson]

wvwPage.HTML = File.Load(path &/ "index.html")   ?


On 06/02/2017 08:57 PM, adamn...@gmail.com wrote:

I am trying to get a WebViewer control in a loaded library to display an html 
file stored inside the executable archive of a project using that library.
This appears to be not possible ... in the following the main project is calling the 
library form Run method with a relative path say "../help/html/index.html" 
(Note the use of the ../ to get the calling programs executable relative path!). The 
library code is as follows:

Public Sub Run (path As string)
If Exist(path &/ "index.html") Then
Debug path &/ "index.html exists"
wvwPage.URL = path &/ "index.html"
Debug wvwPage.URL

FHSView.Run.10: ../help/html/index.html exists
FHSView.Run.13: file:///home/ksshare/gb3projects/Tools/help/html/index.html

 From the above debug output it appears that the WebView control is 
"subverting" the actual path back into an absolute path.
Any comments?

I think I can extract the entire help directory out of the calling program's 
executable into the /tmp dir, but I think that then I will have to edit every 
link in the pages to a path relative to the /tmp dir. Painful!

Has anyone got any better ideas?

bruce



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[Gambas-user] Using a relative file path for a WebView URL

[adamn...@gmail.com]

I am trying to get a WebViewer control in a loaded library to display an html 
file stored inside the executable archive of a project using that library.
This appears to be not possible ... in the following the main project is 
calling the library form Run method with a relative path say 
"../help/html/index.html" (Note the use of the ../ to get the calling programs 
executable relative path!). The library code is as follows:

Public Sub Run (path As string)
If Exist(path &/ "index.html") Then 
Debug path &/ "index.html exists"
wvwPage.URL = path &/ "index.html"
Debug wvwPage.URL

FHSView.Run.10: ../help/html/index.html exists
FHSView.Run.13: file:///home/ksshare/gb3projects/Tools/help/html/index.html

>From the above debug output it appears that the WebView control is 
>"subverting" the actual path back into an absolute path.
Any comments?

I think I can extract the entire help directory out of the calling program's 
executable into the /tmp dir, but I think that then I will have to edit every 
link in the pages to a path relative to the /tmp dir. Painful!

Has anyone got any better ideas?

bruce
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