I have an html instruction manual (a frames page, with several
'chapter' pages and a folder of images), included in my application
folder. I want the user to be able to call this from the 'help' menu
of my application, and have it display in his or her browser. This is
proving harder than I thought.
Right now my menu handler looks like this:
dim f, c as folderItem
dim s as string
f=getfolderItem("")//the application folder
c=f.child("readme.html")
s="file://"+c.absolutePath
showURL s
This code is ignored. If I substitute "http:" for "file:", the browser
comes to the front, but I get a 'server not found' error, with the
'server' being the parent volume. This is not surprising.
Is there any way to use ShowURL to call a local html file? As I've
been researching this before posting, I've encountered some other
methods of creating online help, but that (at least for now) is a
little more involved than what I had in mind.
Since my application happens to be an FTP client, and the user could
therefore be expected to be online, an easy workaround would be to put
the html stuff on my own server--but that would be a 'kludge deluxe.'
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