I've got some HTML and some images in my iPhone app, arranged something like:
html/
foo.html
images/
bar.png
I can get bar.png to appear in my UIWebView a couple of different ways -- either loading foo.html from an NSUrl, and walking back up the directory tree from the html directory:
<img src="../images/bar.png"/>
or by loading foo.html into a string, using loadHtmlString, and using [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleURL] as the baseURL:
<img src="images/bar.png"/>
Both of these are kind of clumsy, though -- in the first case, if I move HTML files around I have to rejigger all the relative paths, and in the second case, I have to ignore the actual path structure of the HTML files.
What I'd like to make work is this --
<img src="/images/bar.png"/>
-- treating the bundleURL as the root of the "site". Is there any way to make this work, or am I doomed to have that translated into file:///images/bar.png and have the file not found?
If I'm not mistaken, you have some files in your project bundle that you want to load in your web view. You can do it simply with these few lines of code:
NSString *imagePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"bar" ofType:@"png"];
NSURL *imageURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:imagePath];
I'm assuming that you have a text/html file containing the pattern for your web view. You'll need to add the image as an object there (src="%@"...) and then add the imageURL to the pattern:
NSString *path = [[NSString alloc]initWithString:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:@"htmlPattern" ofType:@"html"]];
NSError *error;
NSString *pattern = [[NSString alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:path
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
error:&error];
htmlPage = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:pattern,
imageURL;
webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:WEBVIEW_FRAME];
[webView loadHTMLString:htmlPage baseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:pattern]]];
Only way I can see for you to do this would be to embed a web server in your app. Matt Gallagher has a blog post on this you could start from. Alternatively, CocoaHTTPServer and Mongoose could be dropped into your project.
