Create an html file and launch it

General
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I create a text file called mytest.html in a folder chosen by the user.
In the same folder, I save a few pictures, referenced by the page.

the first few rows of the file:

[code]
Page Title

Some text

[/code]

After its created, I call f.launch

Web browser opens, but the pictures are not displayed.
The browser bar displays file:///.file/id=6571367.11638908

Yet if I open that folder, and double click the mytest.html file, the images are displayed properly, and the browser address bar shows the correct filename.

How do I get the browser to ‘use the right working folder’ so that it sees the local images?

edit: currently testing on mac but will be multi-platform

2

The images need to be relative to your html. Same as for all html. There is nothing special with using local html. Open the html in a html editor and fix the links there. Even better use Rapidweaver or similar to create your html so that the links are created automatically.

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The images need to be relative to your html.

is a relative link, isnt it?
I can get them to display if I change it so that they are NOT relative to the html file, since it can find them if they are at a named location.

I’m creating the HTML and the content at runtime, to produce a single html file.

4

On the mac, when the default app for html is Safari, it opens with this unusual file reference
file:///.file/id=6571367.11638908

When I change the default app to Chrome, it fails to open the file at all, with a message to say that the file has been moved.
That file id looks like a temporary file to me: I dont understand why it isnt getting the file path when I use f.launch, in the way that a .doc or .xls, or .txt file would

5

Chrome is a different problem because Chrome needs to protect you from your own files!

Okay. I made a very simple html file with just

[code]

[/code]

Loads just fine.

6

So does mine.
Unless I use myfile.launch in code

How are you launching yours?

7

Perhaps using ShowURL instead of Launch would work better:

ShowURL(MyFile.URLPath)
8

Thanks Paul. That works.
Id tried a few variations on SHOWURL previously, prefixing with file:// and using nativepath and absolutepath
but the URLPath does the trick!