FLASH: Re: IE Load Movie Problem -- EUREKA!!

[Larissa Holland]

We discovered(?) a more efficient way to solve our load movie problem

(other than put all the flash movies in the same directory as the html,

since base=. didn't solve the problem). FWIW, the following code appears

to eliminate the Load Movie relative path problems in IE without

hardcoding the URLs in the Flash movie.  (Maybe this what some meant

when they said to use absolute URLs, but we took it to mean hardcode

them and that is just too much work. :))


If (_level1/:_framesloaded<2)

      Set Variable: "url" = _url

      Set Variable: "URLIndex" = Length(url)

      Loop While (URLIndex>0)

            Set Variable: "char" = Substring(url,URLIndex,1)

            If ((char eq "/") or (char eq "\"))

                  Set Variable: "url" = Substring(url,1,URLIndex)

                  Set Variable: "URLIndex" = 0

            End If

            Set Variable: "URLIndex" = URLIndex-1

      End Loop

      Comment: Used loop above to back into a URL to get everything but the

movie name (i.e. the path).  Then used the path to build the load movie

name. 

This permits IE to find a movie's related sound file if we put all Flash movies

in their own folder.

      Load Movie (url&"sounds.swf", 1)

End If


We are now finally able to get the following to work in IE or Netscape!!!!


   <param name=movie value="../graphics_movies/Test/Test.swf">


Good luck everyone.


P.S.

We are open to any suggestions on how to clean up the code, since we are Flash

newbies.


P.P.S.

It would be a LOT nicer if Macromedia and Microsoft would team up to get the

relative location loading of movies to work without all this code.  (My

inclination is to believe it is a Microsoft problem, since it seems to

work in

Netscape without this code.)


-- 

Greg Kreis                   Pioneer Data Systems, Inc.

gkreisPioneerDataSys [dot] com

    http://www.PioneerDataSys.com


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