Question

I have a .html file that needs to go into my iPhone app’s bundle resource directory. I tried FIle -> New -> Resource but nothing seemed to fit the bill.

Right now I’m using a UIWebView loadRequest and have the “pathForResource:@”help.htm”… it crashes when it can’t find help.htm. If I put this in a Resource directoyr, I believe I can still use the same code without any directory qualifiers.

How do I do this?

UPDATE:

Here is the UIWebView code:

- (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender {

    if([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"helpSegue"])  {

        [slWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iHelp.htm" ofType:@"html"]isDirectory:NO]]];


    }
    else 
        if ([[segue identifier] isEqualToString:@"reportSegue"]) {
            NSLog(@"reportSegue");
        }
}

Here is the error I’m getting:

 *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:isDirectory:]: nil string parameter'

Answer 1

I think this is your problem:

[slWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iHelp.htm" ofType:@"html"]isDirectory:NO]]];

You need to omit the extension from the file name since it is specified in a separate parameter:

[slWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iHelp" ofType:@"htm"]isDirectory:NO]]];

Then just add the “iHelp.htm” file to the project as normal making sure it is marked as included the applications target.

Just to be sure, try right clicking your app in the “Products” group and select “Reveal in Finder”. Then right click the .app bundle (which is just a folder) and select reveal contents to see what’s actually included. If you don’t see your “iHelp.htm” file it means it is not marked as a member of the target. Find and select the “iHelp.htm” file in Xcode then open the utilities view. Look under the “Target Membership section and make sure the checkbox for your application target is checked.

Update
What you see with the above change is this:

[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iHelp" ofType:@"htm"]

Causes a search in the app bundle for “iHelp.htm” which is returning the path of the htm file where before it was returning nil since it couldn’t find it. (Before you were looking for “iHelp.htm.html” which didn’t exist. The next part of your problem is figuring out why this path is not properly converted to a URLRequest. You have a lot of inlining, which I personally love, but to correctly debug you may want to break it out into separate variables temporarily.

NSString *iHelpPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iHelp" ofType:@"htm"];
NSLog(@"iHelpPath = %@", iHelpPath);
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:iHelpPath];
NSLog(@"fileURL = %@", fileURL);
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:fileURL];
NSLog(@"request = %@", request);

And see what that gives you.