Hi Alan - setting the htmltext of the widget works fine for me. My map data
comes from Bing. What is going wrong when you do that?
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> On Aug 24, 2017, at 9:29 AM, Alan via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> Am having a problem loading a local file that displays a Google map on the
> Android emulator. LC 8.1.6.
>
> I was also having a problem with local HTML files in general, but got that
> going. Using the same method for a dynamically created map document, located
> in the specialfolderpath("documents") folder doesn't seem to work. See below
> for code that doesn't work followed by code that works.
>
> 1. Code that doesn't work is (using a file from the "documents"
> specialFolder):
> ---
> put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "MAP.html" into tMapFile
> -- tMapFile = /data/data/com.scruffmonkey.echidnaCSI/files/MAP.html --
> Why is the path /data/data/... and not /data/app/... as in the next example?
> if the platform contains "android" then
> set the url of widget "myMap" to tMapFile
> else
> put fileConvertToFileURL(tMapFile) into tURL
> set the url of widget "myMap" to (tURL)
> end if
> ---
>
>
> 2. While code that works is (using a file from the resources folder):
> ---
> put specialFolderPath("resources") & "/data/fun_facts.html" into tFile
> -- tFile =
> /data/app/com.scruffmonkey.echidnaCSI-2/base.apk/data/fun_facts.html
> if the platform contains "android" then
> set the url of widget "infoscroll" to (tFile)
> else
> put fileConvertToFileURL(tFile) into tURL
> set the url of widget "infoscroll" to (tURL)
> end if
> ---
>
>
> Any ideas why there's a difference between the resources and documents
> specialFolderPaths?
>
> Why does the "documents" specialFolderPath here start with /data/data/ and
> the resources one start with /data/app/ ??
>
> I've also tried setting the HTMLText of the widget but that also doesn't seem
> to work.
>
> Help please! :-)
>
> cheers
>
> Alan
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