Folder path variables

[PeterG]

Hi All
I am busy with something in in the Windows Operating system that should merge number of pdf files and create a resulting PDF.
The first bit works fine but I am opening a new card after this.
In the "on open card" event I want to set a Browser widget url to a variable value:

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 set the url of widget "wgtBrowser" to gFilename

After tracing the following, found that the value has a space:
tCombined = "/users/Documents/pdf /combined.pdf"

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Peter G

[PeterG]

Hi All
My apologies.
Had 2 ampersands instead of one in the code.

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put defaultfolder & "combined.pdf" into tCombined
set the url of widget "wgtBrowser" to tCombined

Thanks
Peter G

[richmond62]

At the risk of seeming very stupid indeed I cannot understand what you are trying to get across
as you mention this:

set the url of widget "wgtBrowser" to gFilename

and

tCombined = "/users/Documents/pdf /combined.pdf"

which are, presumably sections of some script we cannot see, so we
can see no obvious connexion between them at all.

Please can you post ALL the script so . . . . .

[FourthWorld]

A URL requires a service specifier. Try adding "file://" before the path.

[MaxV]

I tried also with urlencode, but it seems a bug to me.

This doesn't work: file:///home/max/Scrivania/test+with+spaces.xml

[FourthWorld]

Is it an HTML file or an XML file?

When the file is opened in a separate browser application, does it display? If so, what is the URL shown there? Does it differ from the path used in the LC app?

[MaxV]

This doesn't work: file:///home/max/Scrivania/test+with+spaces.html

this work: file:///home/max/Scrivania/test%20with%20spaces.html

So in the end this is the solution:

########CODE to copy and paste#######
on mouseUp
answer file "Select file:"
if the result is not "cancel" then
put it into temp
replace space with "%20" in temp
set the URL of widget 1 to ( "file://" & temp )
end if
end mouseUp
#####END OF CODE generated by http://tinyurl.com/j8xf3xq with livecode 9.0.0-dp-6#####

[PeterG]

Hi MaxV
Many thanks for your input
Much appreciated

Peter G