Call OpenURL from Widget within iBooks/iBook Author?
I am trying to call widget.openURL("...") from within a dashboard app that I imported into iBooks Author. While this is working fine in the simulator and in the dashboard, it is doing nothing inside the book context. Everything else is working fine within the widget and I checked that the "openURL" code is called - but the method seems not to be available on iBooks. Anything I can do to open an URL from within a widget? (Using the hyperlink feature from within iBooks does not help).
Thx and greetings.
None seem to correctly address this:- Is there code to fully access a website and stay in the widget in the iBook?
A link - in the book- on a readers iPad - that opens a web page will open a browser and take the reader away from the book, when the iPad moves to the browser window - tapping the ebook tab will re-open.
Moving from one web page to another from the web links, will- on the iPad - just open another window.
To my logic, to stay literally within the widget means having a widget that turns the widget aperture into a web browser. I have seen this done within website pages using iFrames I think. Maybe some web coders may have a solution.
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Check the attached screenshot.
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Seems like this must be a common question, but I cannot for the life of me, find the appropriate topic. So apologies ahead of time if this is a repeat.
I have code like the following:
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