Refresh A Browser Widget.

[Googie85]

Hi LiveCoders!

I am having a problem refreshing a webpage "TEST.html" in a browser widget. The html page displays an image "/1.jpg" , and this displays fine.

I am updating the /1.jpg file, but, the webpage "TEST.html" does not refresh to the newly updated "/1.jpg". I am trying to refresh the page so it will display the updated image file.

I hope I have explained my situation clearly!!

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

Googie.

EDIT: I am using the following code to send to the browser widget.

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   put ( specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "TEST.html" ) into blah
   set the URL of widget "Browser" to blah

[richmond62]

Why do I have a feeling that inserting a dummy HTML file between each refresh might make
all the difference?

[strongbow]

Probably because blah doesn't contain a URL.

You need to prepend something like "file:" to your variable "blah".

[mrcoollion]

Just a small addition to this topic beause i am working on this 'issue'.

If you just want to refresh the browser widget using the url already set you could use the following.

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On Mouseup
   RefreshBrowser "Name"
end Mouseup

command RefreshBrowser BrowserWidgetName
   put the url of widget BrowserWidgetName into tBrowserUrl
   set the URL of widget BrowserWidgetName to tBrowserUrl
end RefreshBrowser

Regards,

Paul

[FourthWorld]

Browser engines are notorious for aggressive caching. I recently came across an annoying situation with a web app I've been working on where the layout didn't line up because even though the browser was getting the latest HTML it was still using a cache of an image file that had changed.

One way to prevent that is to modify the image URL by appending the src reference with a bogus query that's different each time the page is loaded:

https://instructobit.com/tutorial/119/F ... Javascript