Thanks for your response Anthony, I'll try what you suggest. On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 5:20 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 11:05:35 PM UTC-4, Jonsubs wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> I'm a web2py newbie and I'm trying to use a third party JS library >> (chessboard.js from http://www.chessboardjs.com/). The library is used >> to show a chessboard in the webpage. It does use some images to show the >> chess pieces, the javascript has a relative path in the code: >> >> cfg.pieceTheme = 'img/chesspieces/wikipedia/{piece}.png'; >> > > This is relative to the path of the current file (which is the JS file > itself), so you should put the /img folder inside the /static/js folder. > > >> b) cfg.pieceTheme = URL('static','img/chesspieces/wikipedia/{piece}.png'); >> //and it fails also >> > > Note, URL() is a Python function that works only on the server in the > web2py environment -- you cannot insert it into a static JS file, which is > executed entirely within the browser. > > >> The only way I found, so far, to display images is to use the absolute >> path, see below, which looks like a really bad work around. >> >> cfg.pieceTheme = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000/tablero/static/img/chesspieces/ >> wikipedia/{piece}.png'; >> > > If you want to keep the file in /static/img, you can still use a relative > URL: > > cfg.pieceTheme = '../img/chesspieces/wikipedia/{piece}.png > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/tablero/static/img/chesspieces/wikipedia/%7Bpiece%7D.png> > '; > > The ../ will traverse from the /js folder up one level to the /static > folder. > > Anthony > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
