For use in a questionnaire application, a web service will provide a list of questions in one of several languages, chosen by the user at runtime. The questions will be downloaded from the web service in the chosen language and displayed to the user.
The problem: I have no idea how to do this.
As a sample, I tried loading in UTF-8 text files (e.g. arabic.txt) in the resources containing samples of text in said languages. The files open and render properly in TextMate and TextEdit, but are illegible in Xcode. They are successfully read in, but their contents will not display.
Example:
I create a UITextView and, at initialization:
...
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"arabic" ofType:#"txt"];
NSString *arabicString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path encoding:NSUTF8StringENcoding error:&error];
myTextView.text = arabicString;
...
The NSError returns NULL, so there's no error reading in the text file, but the contents of the UITextView is not set. Nothing happens. No error (compilation or runtime), nothing.
Any ideas for a different approach? Or a way to make this work?
Thanks so much.
What you are currently doing sounds reasonable, but for a different approach that I have used (that worked for me), try using a UIWebView. Something along the lines of:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/arabic.html",path]];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
[self.helpWebView loadData:data MIMEType:#"text/html" textEncodingName:#"utf-8" baseURL:baseURL];
(Be interesting to see if using arabic.txt and mime-type of text/plain loads any differently in the web view.)
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I am developing a XCAP application.In my application i am developing a xml file.Here my problem is this xml file,i want to place an url.can any one help to me?
thank in advance
u can add the xml file to your app resources.
then use
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"myXmlFile" ofType:#"xml"];
//here is ur URL
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:path];
I have a problem with a WebView. I'm loading an Html String into a web view. As base URL I need to use my site URL (because there are some relative link inside the html and I cannot modify it).
The problem is that I also need to use some images and css that are stored inside the Application bundle.
So I'm creating a reference to the local resource using this code (the result string is used as src in html file):
NSString *cssUrl = [NSString stringWithString:#"file:"];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByAppendingString:[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByAppendingString:#"/story.css"];
Then I've also added:
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"/" withString:#"//"];
cssUrl = [cssUrl stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"%20"];
Any idea how to solve the problem and how to create a reference to a file that can be used inside a web view?
Thanks
Francesco
First, import a directory, e.g. one called web, into your project where all the files reside. Make sure you select "Create Group References For Any Folders" when Xcode asks you.
Now you can load your initial string like this after putting it into a file inside web, say index.html:
NSString* path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:
#"index" ofType:#"html" inDirectory:#"web"];
if (path)
[self.webView loadRequest:
[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path]]];
Now all relative source URLs in your string will work as expected, including <img>, <a> etc.
How about this?
NSString *resourcePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"story" ofType:#"css"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:resourcePath];
NSString *theMagicalURLString = [url absoluteString];
It seems that what I was trying to do it's not possible. To use the bundled resource you have to set the base URL of your web view to the resource path.
Thanks to everyone for your help
Francesco
I am having an application which consists of many different file formats like ppt,pdf,txt,png etc, I want to open it whenever the user taps the particular file. How this can be done?Please help me
Can I use WebView for all the files ?
Have a look at the quick look framework with UIDocumentInteractionController class it will have you to open different format of file in its view controller..
QuickLook is a framework that provides quick previewing of a range of document types – supported documents include iWork documents, Microsoft Office, Rich Text Format, PDF, images, text files and comma-separated (csv) files.
Sample Application
UIWebview allow you to display office documents :
You can open them by loading the file data, example with RTF file :
NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"MyFile" ofType:#"txt"];
NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
[self.webView loadData:myData MIMEType:#"application/rtf" textEncodingName:#"latin1" baseURL:nil];
Or you can load them by creating a request with local path :
NSString *pdfPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"fileName" ofType:#"pdf"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithStringdfPath];
NSURLRequest *urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:urlRequest];
Note that for Office documents with complex layout you will have a very (very) poor rendering.
The only solution is to call a separate application that handles this kind of documents (Pages, Quick office, etc)
Have a look at UIDocumentInteractionController to open your documents in another app
Hope this helps,
Vincent
HI can i place both xml files and images that the xml file transports in xcode to test the working since i don't have the internet ? If it can be done , what should be the path name for the xml to be coded in program and images to be typed in xml.?
NSString *stringToXML = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"theXMLDoc" ofType:#"xml"];
NSURL *XMLURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:stringToXML];
Using that you can get XML documents from the resource folder and use them.
Just substitute your url in your code for the variable XMLURL and you should be fine. Its the same for images, you just need to make an NSURL out of the path resource.
I am new to IPhone developing.
I have got very strange issue with NSURL which is driving me crazy. I want to instantiate NSURL object to use it in loading image. But instantiation never happens in proper way. It always says my url in invalid.
Basically I use code like below:
NSString *str = #"http://google.com";
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:str];
but I also have tried a lot of different modifications (with CFStringRef + CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes and so on). All of them are not working for me. In debugger url is set to "Invalid".
What it could be? I don't think this is algorithmic or environment issue. It could be about some settings?
Have anyone any idea of what happens?
Your string isn't escaped properly - you should do it like this:
NSString *str = #"http://google.com";
NSString *escStr = [str stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:
NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:escStr];
Are you using that actual code or just code "like" it? That method will return nil if you don't feed it a valid string with everything escaped properly.