Using application.showURL problem

[kitty]

Hello.

In my Servoy application, I use the application.showURL function to open a web browser with the following URL:

http://www2.studiebijbel.nl/scripts/Web ... n&email=...

This is a valid URL and on my computer it works corectly.
I tested the application on another computer and the browser do not open and I have a red message in Servoy bottom bar:

"If running in client this url is shown in browser : ...the url"

Do you have any idea what could be happening?

Thank you,
Cristina.

[Jan Aleman]

Servoy Developer doesn't open the URL but if you would run the same method in Servoy Client it will. Try running it in Client.

[Harjo]

We have the same issue IN the client.

for some reason if you have spaces (%20) or so in the url, the url won't open in the client also.

I have talked to Johan about it and he would look into that.

[rgansevles]

Are you talking about the web client of the smart client.
And what Servoy/OS/java/browser versions are you using?

I created a simple solution with a button that call showUrl with the above URL and this worked fine.

Rob

[Harjo]

I'm talking about the smart-client!

[sanneke]

Hi Cristina,

does your url start with "http://" in the method and not with 'www' ?

[Harjo]

I have to be precise:

We use it with a link like this:

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application.showURL('file://c:/Offerte test.pdf')

This does not work in developer AND smart-client.

[rgansevles]

Try this:

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var f = "file:///tmp/file with space.html"
application.showURL(encodeURI(f))

Rob

[kitty]

I run the application after I build it with Servoy runtime builder. In developer the link works ok, in the runtime it doesn`t work.

Is encodeURL() a Servoy function or how can I define it? I have to try it.

Cristina

[rgansevles]

I used encodeURI, with an I, not encodeURL.
It is a javascript built-in function.

Rob

[kitty]

I solved the problem.

I use instead of
application.showURL(globals.url)

application.executeProgram('rundll32', 'url.dll,FileProtocolHandler', globals.url)

and now it works fine in runtime.

Cristina

[rgansevles]

Cristina,

Please note that this is very windows-specific.

Rob

[kitty]

Yes, I know but our application is meant to run only on windows.
Anyway I can`t find a better solution so for the moment it`s ok.

Cristina

[Harjo]

you can do this also for Windows & Mac:

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if(utils.stringMiddle(application.getOSName(),1,7) == "Windows")
{
   application.executeProgramInBackground('rundll32', 'url.dll,FileProtocolHandler',globals.url)
} else
{
if (utils.stringLeftWords(application.getOSName(), 1) == "Mac")
{
   application.executeProgram('open', globals.url);
}
}

[Providence1]

There seems to be a 2000 character limit to the length of characters you can pass with application.executeProgramInBackground('rundll32', 'url.dll,FileProtocolHandler',globals.url)?

Anyone else seeing this?