HTMLViewer1.LoadURL

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1

What is the best way to load a webpage using HTMLViewer1.LoadURL? I am using Xojo 2021r3.1 for a web project. I want to be able to store the file in the application directory. I want it to work in debug mode and when deployed to a server.

2

If you’re wanting to load a static HTML file from your site you would use LoadHTML and you would use a copyfile build step to copy the file during the build process. A better place for the file would be in the resources folder, not the application folder.

3

What example code could I use?

4

You would use something like

Sub Shown() Handles Shown
  Var Document As TextInputStream = TextInputStream.Open(SpecialFolder.Resources.Child("Document.html"))
  me.LoadHTML(Document.ReadAll)
  Document.Close
End Sub

which is the shown event of the htmlviewer control on your page/container.

5

Worked great. The only problem I had was how to use “copy files” to place the file in the resources directory.
The file kept disappearing until I found out the Build step “copy files” needed to be dragged and dropped to just under the build icon(s). After that the code worked great.

Thanks.

6

You could also drop the file into the left pane of the project. That places it in Resources.