Re: Correct img format for browser widget.

[James Hale via use-livecode]

Thank you so much Hermann and Jonathan

It took me a little time but I worked out what to do after looking at your 
suggestions.

The fact that setting the htmltext of the browser widget breaks the img URL's 
makes sense from a security and logical point of view.

I then tried Jonathan's technique of using the image data. 
This worked a treat but for some files was quite slow on my larger files.
e.g. one html had 200 images. It took some 20 secs for the browser to load.

So I thought I would try Hermann's later suggesting of just saving the file as 
an html and setting the URL of the browser to it.
The conversion from markdown left the img tags in the correct format for a 
browser to locate the files.

After finding Trevor's function for correctly URL encoding the file name I was 
able to successfully load the files into the browser widget and display the 
images.
The 200 image file loaded in less than a second which was good.

The final issue was the varying width of the images.
I simply loaded an array keyed on the file names with a single value, image 
width.
I didn't want any widths greater than 800 pixels so a simply if statement set 
all widths > 800 to 800
Then a simple replace loop using the image size array "gimagescale"...
repeat for each key ikey in gimagescale

     replace ikey&quote&" " with ikey&quote&" width = 
"&quote&gimagescale[ikey]&quote in nfile

end repeat

and the img tags were in a format I wanted.

Loading into the browser widget was fast and the images all fitted in the 
browser's width.

Setting the htmltext of a field was my first choice. But the html of the 
converted markdown docs was more than LC's htmltext function could handle.
And to be honest, the browser's rendering looked better.
Had the html been simpler, using a field would have been just as fast.

Anyway, my issue is resolved.

Thank you both again for your help.

James






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