Re: FLASH: IE Load Movie problem....

[Wayne Pennell \( Web Master \)]

You need to use javascript to control what folder it looks in via a browser

detect script for best results or just make one flash movie that contains

all your sounds and jump into that movie with the correct swf file.




ie.

Netscape > 4.5 = true then blah blah or  if  IE > 3 then


DO

flashA                                      flashB

flashC

  |                                                |

|

  -----------------------------------------------------------------

                                       | FlashSuperSound.swf |



          case movie flashA then play :FlashsoundA  else

                                                     if flashB then play

:FlashsoundB else

                                                     if flashC then play

:Flashsound C

           end.



Wayne Pennell



> 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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