I want to use aui.webview()to show an image instead of using aui.imageview()(for the purposes of playing .gif animations).
How do you open the .gif if it is not a url but a local file? Do I useWebView.load_html(html)?
You can construct a file:// URL from the image path, and load it using load_url:
import urlparse
import urllib
import os
import ui
# Change this:
img_path = os.path.abspath('Examples/Misc/animation.gif')
img_url = urlparse.urljoin('file:', urllib.pathname2url(img_path))
webview = ui.WebView()
webview.load_url(img_url)
webview.present()
Thank you @omz . That was very helpful.
You actually don't need file://, if you use os.abspath
w.load_url(os.path.abspath('a.gif'))