FLASH: IE Load Movie problem....

[Larissa Holland]

S.O.S. -- URGENT HELP NEEDED!


Background:

We are embedding flash movies into HTML pages. We are targeting 4+ browsers.

Each Flash movie loads a separate sound movie (sounds.swf) from the same

folder as the Flash movie. Because the sound movie for each Flash has

the same name but is different, each Flash movie is in a separate folder

along with its sounds.swf. 


Problem:

When we nest the folder containing the flash movies within another

folder that contains the HTML page, we use the method shown below to

reference the movie.  In IE, it won't play the sound movie (it can't

find it), but it works very well in Netscape.


   param name=movie value="graphics_movies/pushpopstacks/PushPopStacks.swf"

   param name="base" value="."

   embed src="graphics_movies/pushpopstacks/PushPopStacks.swf" base="."  ....


We thought we had the problem licked, when we used "./sounds.swf", as

opposed to

just "sounds.swf", as the argument to the Load Movie command.   No

matter what

we do, IE is not giving Flash the help it needs to get the proper 'base' for

loading movies.  The Flash Player in IE insists on loading the movie

from the

location of the HTML page!!!!


Surely this is a common problem with a solution.  One fix is to put everything

in the same folder (page and flash movies) but that is an ugly way to

manage a

site AND we can't have the consistent practice of naming the sound movie with

the same name.  (We need the same name for the sound movie because we

don't want

to have to edit the action script over and over for each movie.  Can anyone

suggest the ActionScript expression that could let us create a sound

movie name

based on the name of the current movie? ie. <NameOfCurrentMovie>+"snd.swf")


We are really excited about Flash, but this has got us stumped (and

upset with

IE!!!).


Regards,

Larissa Holland


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