Re: FLASH: Can a child movie Automatically call another childmovie?

[Helen Triolo]

John Graham wrote:

> 

> >> They don't have to be in the same folder do that?  That would create a huge

> >> folder, 100+ swf's...


And Marc replied:

> >

> > This is inconsistent between browsers. In some, the browser looks in the

> > folder relative to the .swf (which most of us would consider "correct") but

> > in others (Mac I.E. ?) the browser looks in the folder relative to the

> > hosting HTML page. One work-around is to use the entire Web path (beginning

> > with "http://"). Another is the one you're trying to avoid -- put all

> > ..swf's in the same folder as the html files.

> 

And John wrote back:


> You've got to be kidding me?  LOL, I've been testing just the .swf's in the

> projector.

> 

> After trying the swf's in both Netscape and IE5 for the mac, they seem to

> behave in the same manner.  <--working.    But from what I read from you,

> they should not work?   Everything I created is relative to the HTML page,

> and seems to work.  I can't exactly test the streaming, and bandwidth

> profiler in Flash when exporting, but they still seem to work.

> 

> Is this a fluke? Should I be concerned?  


John,


  I think what Marc was referring to is a problem with relative paths,

as described here by Matt Wobensmith:


Mac IE reconciles relative paths for Flash movies relative to the SWF

file, which is totally different than all of the other browsers, which

use the HTML document. Therefore, a relative URL in a SWF displayed in

Mac IE may not work. 


TechNote 13638 explains how to use the BASE attribute to specify a

directory to reconcile relative URLs in the HTML. However, this can

break Netscape as well. The only two sure-fire ways to make this work:

1. Use absolute URLs

2. Put SWFs and HTML files in the same directory, always.

TechNote 13638 - Mac IE issues:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/mac_ie_issues.htm


-- end of Matt W's post --


So, if everything's already working for you on a Mac, you're set (maybe

because you're talking swf-to-swf and not html-to-swf?).  Otherwise, you

might want to check out the technote referred to above.


Regards,

Helen

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