OBS cannot access local files from local HTML JavaScript

[Vaesive]

I cannot for the life of me get OBS to show a simple HTML file with some JavaScript that reads from a local txt file in the same directory that the html file lives. Everything works fine with Firefox and Chrome with no console or JS errors.

Things I've tried:

• Adding --allow-file-access-from-files to my OBS shortcut and running as administrator.
• Running OBS through command line as administrator with the --allow-file-access-from-files flag.
• Enabling/Disabling Hardware Acceleration for Browser Sources.
• Unchecking "Local File" and putting file:/// before the full filepath to the html file.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm going insane here...

I've zipped up my entire project just for simplicity

 

[Vaesive]

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[Vaesive]

The logs led me to the fix, thank you! Apparently, OBS doesn't like the short-hand null check character (?) or something? I removed it from a null check and things worked fine.

Thank you!

 

[ContentDeveloper]

@Vaesive -- can you share what the exact code change is that you made to make it work?

 

[Vaesive]

I'm using JQuery in my javascript and was using the '?' (shorthand null check) operator.

Line 54 in the attached zip
var rawSubs = readTextFile("subs.txt")?.split(";");

That line is essentially saying "perform split operation if the expected text file is not null". I removed the '?' and it worked fine in OBS.