Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lypny 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, that is, without the HTML tags > showing? Gregory, set the htmlText of fld “myfld” to URL “file:/path/to/file.html” Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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, "Devin Asay" wrote: > >On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lypny >wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I¹m 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? > >Gregory, > > set the htmlText of fld ³myfld² to URL ³file:/path/to/file.html² > >Devin > >Devin Asay >Office of Digital Humanities >Brigham Young University > > >___ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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. I’m developing a desktop utility. Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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 wrote: > 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, "Devin Asay" wrote: > >> >> On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lypny >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I¹m 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? >> >> Gregory, >> >> set the htmlText of fld ³myfld² to URL ³file:/path/to/file.html² >> >> Devin >> >> Devin Asay >> Office of Digital Humanities >> Brigham Young University >> >> >> ___ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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 simple text based html. 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. Best, Bill > On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Gregory Lypny 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, that is, without the HTML tags > showing? > > Regards, > > Gregory > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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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 its ecosystem - I have all the apps I need, and I'm as productive in the OS itself as I am on Mac. The only thing that causes productivity loss for me is LiveCode's lack of feature parity. :( -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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 revBrowser working on Linux for 8.0 DP 1 onwards - although it is 64-bit only at the moment. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
On May 1, 2015, at 6:41 AM, Gregory Lypny 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 find it? I can’t find one > in the LiveCode’s Tools palette or under the Object menu. I’m developing a > desktop utility. Gregory, There is no icon on the tools palette you can drag onto the card. You have to instantiate it using a script. See the dictionary entry on revBrowserOpenCef. There is a script example there on how to create a browser instance. There’s also a lesson on how to do it here: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/2592/l/278115-create-a-browser-instance-within-your-app HTH Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field
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 Browser version of revBrowser working on Linux for > 8.0 DP 1 onwards - although it is 64-bit only at the moment. Super cool, Mark. Given what we hope will be a long development cycle for v8, any chance that can be backported to v7 so we can take advantage of that work in the current version cycle? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode