You'll need to insert a "localhost" in your url
If you change your menu handler to:
dim f, c as folderItem
dim s as string
f=getfolderItem("")//the application folder
c=f.child("index.html")
s="file://localhost/"+c.absolutePath
showURL s
It should work (at least it works on my machine).
Cheers
Jan
From: Jerry Fritschle <jerryfritschle at mac dot com>
Reply-To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
To: RealBasic Discussion <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Displaying online help in browser.
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:05:55 -0500
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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