how to displaying contents of a field in oBrowser

[Alex Clay]

LOL! Hi praise indeed!

I checked our implementation of displaying HTML from memory and we do indeed write to a temporary file and display that file using the file:// protocol.

I checked the revision notes on this class and it looks like we tried the $seturldata method at one point. However, I reverted that change to use a file instead. My notes were "Revert previous commit. This breaks rendering photos on Windows". YMMV.

Doug, if you can figure out an in-memory option that handles external links and so on I'd love to see it! Writing to a file works but seems to add unnecessary overhead and complexity.

Alex

> On Apr 7, 2021, at 12:49, Mike Matthews - Omnis <omnis at lineal.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I think I followed Alex’s command, and did just that in the end for what I was trying to do.
> 
> Clever bugger is that Alex, and wise :)
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 Apr 2021, at 17:42, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com<mailto:doug at artsman.com>> wrote:
> 
> hi Mike.
> 
> thanks for the hint.  I had aa look at past references to $setdataURL ans tried it our with mime type of ’text/html’ ….    but no luck.
> 
> Alex Clay kept on falling back to write it as a file, so I’m reorganizing code a little at the moment for.a quick and dirty save to file.
> 
> 
> If anybody else has the secret, love to hear of it.
> 
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
> On April 7, 2021, at 8:34 AM, Mike Matthews - Omnis <omnis at lineal.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hello Doug,
> 
> I remember something like this, but not sure.  What does the runtime method called $setdataurl do?  Otherwise I’m not sure.
> 
> But I have struggled and succeed with some base64 stuff from the Remote Form RTF object (jsRich), where you can embed graphics into a writing field using the Quill code.  Now I can pull out those images and save them to disk.
> 
> Thanks to Mike Motter for that help in 2019.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On 7 Apr 2021, at 16:10, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com<mailto:doug at artsman.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> I’m sure somebody has done this, so I’m looking for a quick hint.
> 
> I have a field that contains a full web page.   lets call it     MYDATA
> 
> 
> I want to get oBrowser to display that full web page without writing the contents to a file and thne displaying it.
> 
> i.e.   I know I can
> 1) write the contents of MYDATA to a file
> 
> 2) give $urlorcontrolname the path name to the file and it will display
> 
> 
> I’m hoping there is a way to simply give oBrowser the contents of MYDATA and show the web page.
> 
> 
> anybody done that. (and willing to share the code shortcut).
> 
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
> 
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