View external image in htmltext?

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:26 pm

I'm having another old man brain fart here... is it possible and how do I reference an external image in html text?

Thanks,
~Garrett

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:21 am

You can use an online URL; as an example:

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set the imagesource of word 2 of field 1 to "http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif"

should display the Revolution forums logo in your field.

But it looks like a 'file://" URL doesn't work - so my next best bet is to create an image control, which references the file on disk, and then use the short id of this image control in your imageSource.

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:46 am

K, thanks a lot Jan. I was trying to keep from having to add the images to the stack, but looks like I'll have to.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:07 am

Hi Jan,

What about "binfile:<path to file>"?

Mark

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:33 pm

Mark, your suggestion was spot-on. The following script did work for both remote and local URL's:

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on mouseUp
   set the imagesource of char 1 of word 1 of field 1 to "http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif"
   answer file "Select an image"
   set the imagesource of char 1 of word 2 of field 1 to ("binfile://" & it)
end mouseUp

The surprise part was in the fact that the local URL is different from how you'd refer to a file from a browser - of course, in reflection it makes sense that it needs to read the file as binary data, and the doc example does mention "binfile:" - but it's non-intuitive if you're used to html.

Ah well, you learn something new every day

Jan Schenkel.

SparkOut · Post by **SparkOut** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:50 pm

If you're trying to do this by setting the htmlText to <img src="~path~"> can the same approach be adopted? I had a play with various permutations (including similarly to those mentioned above) and couldn't do it unless I referenced the image by id or by full http:// path. I couldn't get any version of file:// or binfile: etc to work with htmlText. (On Windows XP).

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:28 pm

Well, I just did this and it works as I needed:

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<img src="binfile:C:\Projects\Graphics\image.png">

Then I load the html page into my rev program and the image is there.

SparkOut · Post by **SparkOut** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:07 pm

Flub! and yay! Doesn't even need to convert the spaces in the path either! I don't know what I was doing wrong before.
Thanks all.

Garrett · Post by **Garrett** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:35 am

The drawback is though, that you have to use a full file path. Relative paths will not work.

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:11 pm

Another drawback:
This is so counterintuitive and definitively not anything one would think of compared to the common HTML syntax.