Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Devin Asay
On May 1, 2015, at 6:41 AM, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.ca wrote: Hi Devin Asay and Scott Rossi, Thanks for responding. Devin, what Scott says is true: for many of the files the tags continue to appear in the stack’s field. Scott, you mention a browser object. Where would I

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: The only thing is that it’s a bit more tricky to get info transferred between the web field and livecode, but it’s do-able. That, and it doesn't exist at all in LiveCode for Linux. It's funny, but the weakest link for me in using Ubuntu isn't anything in the OS or

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-01 17:37, Richard Gaskin wrote: William Prothero wrote: The only thing is that it’s a bit more tricky to get info transferred between the web field and livecode, but it’s do-able. That, and it doesn't exist at all in LiveCode for Linux. We got the CEF Browser version of

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread William Prothero
Gregory: Search for “browser” in the documents API, that you can find under the “Help” menu when in livecode IDE. It’s amazingly easy to set this up and you have a field that will render your web page the same as your browser (hopefully). I have used it to play YouTube movies, in addition to

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Devin Asay
Well, he did say he wanted the text files to look “something like they do in a browser”. That’s an easy way to at least be able to easily read the html text in a field. But you’re right, it’s not ideal for high-quality display. Devin On Apr 30, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Scott Rossi

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-05-01 17:37, Richard Gaskin wrote: William Prothero wrote: The only thing is that it’s a bit more tricky to get info transferred between the web field and livecode, but it’s do-able. That, and it doesn't exist at all in LiveCode for Linux. We got the CEF

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-05-01 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Devin Asay and Scott Rossi, Thanks for responding. Devin, what Scott says is true: for many of the files the tags continue to appear in the stack’s field. Scott, you mention a browser object. Where would I find it? I can’t find one in the LiveCode’s Tools palette or under the Object menu.

Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-04-30 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi everyone, I’m a little rusty, so please excuse the lame question. I have some text files that are downloaded web pages. How can I display them in a stack field to look something like they do in a browser, that is, without the HTML tags showing? Regards, Gregory

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-04-30 Thread Devin Asay
On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.ca wrote: Hi everyone, I’m a little rusty, so please excuse the lame question. I have some text files that are downloaded web pages. How can I display them in a stack field to look something like they do in a browser,

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

2015-04-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Using htmlText may not render the page layout described in the HTML. You'd probably need to use the browser object and set the URL of the browser to the local file to see the page rendered correctly. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 4/30/15, 2:29 PM,