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I have a field in a stack containing styled text, and I can easily export that to an HTML document, which I can then open subsequently in a web browser.

However, I would really like to open my styled text in a web browser WITHOUT having to mess around with the intermediate step of an HTML document.

What happened here:

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13831

?

Change "runrev" to "livecode" in the url

Browsers in recent years have become more "funny/fussy" at opening local files.
If you use a browser widget or revBrowser from within LC, I think you should be able to set the browser content to the htmlText of your field. (I'm not sure about the state of LC browser options on Linux.)
If you want to have the separate browser receive your text somehow and display, you'd have to get quite involved with permissions and 3rd party automation.

Thank you.

Yup: that was a bit sleepy of me not to change 'runrev' to 'livecode'.

Not that that did me any good as I don't have a current LiveCode licence.

This strikes me as very odd as that bug report (and a considerable number of other ones) refers to the Open Source 'Community' versions: so should not all the bug reports that related to Open Source software also be freely available?

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:38 am

I have a field in a stack containing styled text, and I can easily export that to an HTML document, which I can then open subsequently in a web browser.

However, I would really like to open my styled text in a web browser WITHOUT having to mess around with the intermediate step of an HTML document.

I don't think there's a way around it, but what you can do to make it as "invisible" as possible to the user, is to create the html doc in e.g. the Documents folder, launch it and (after a slight delay so it has time loading) have LiveCode delete it. You could append "the seconds" to the name to make sure (or extremely likely) that no file with that name already exists in the folder.