64bit HTMLTexture(String): Relative Local Paths & Command Lines

vvvv beta bug
#1

Hi again!

i’m rendering some HTML and CSS with HTMLTexture (EX9.Texture String).

In my CSS i’m trying to use an image as background for my

-tag.

p { background: red url(vvvv.png); }

But the image can not be found during the html render process. I tried to put it next to:
\patch.v4p
\vvvv.exe
\addonpack\lib\nodes\plugins\VVVV.Nodes.Texture.HTML.exe

Therefore i tried it with an absolut path

p { background: red url(C:/vvvv.png); }

which causes the following TTY error

Not allowed to load local resource: file:///C:/vvvv.png (about:blank:0)

So i added the appropriate command line to vvvv’s
args.txt

--allow-file-access

Unfortunately none of those approaches work for me!

Next to embedded images i also want to define indifidual font-faces in CSS, but that’s the next step ;-)

Thanks for any help,
Johannes

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#2

did this work before? ie. with b32.1?

#3

Don’t use absolute filesystem paths like url(C:/vvvv.png); - they will yield the error you described.
Instead go with relative paths, like vvvv.png or …/vvvv.png or whatever - and these have to be relative to the given BaseURL. If I remember correctly, CEF is fine with unix-type paths.
I guess this problem is not related to the x64 build.

#4

@joreg: yes it works with the 32bit beta version. for me it seems to be a 64bit alpha bug.

@readme: thanks for the hint with the baseURL and relative paths for it. using the beta version (not the alpha version) now this works for me:

base url

file://\\C:/

as well as a little bit surpisingly

C:/

and then in CSS

p { background: red url(vvvv.png); }

For the 64bit alpha version the HTMLTexture (String) renders only black/nothing (while no error in the TTY renderer pops up).

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#5

check with latest alpha and make sure the path ends with a trailing backslash - you don’t need to prefix the path with file:// though, the node will take care of that.

#6

thx elias! :)