FLASH: Relative URLs

[Mark Sheppard]

Can anyone tell me if I can use "../" to call a .swf

if I have the Base attribute set in the object and imbed tags?


I know there are issues with Mac and relative URLs...


On my project I have a "heavy" and a "light" version.

The only major difference is one swf  that is peretty large (100k) so I have

an alternate swf for the light version.


In my thinking, I should be able to have everything in the "heavy" folder.

Then have a "light" folder with just the modified "index.swf" and the one

other "light" version swf.

Then I set the Base to "htt*://blahblah/heavy" on both pages(light and

heavy) and just call the particular swf that I need with ../light/light.swf

I'm assuming all ..swf would be called from the base (heavy) accept where I

specify ../light


Does this sound right? Is there an easier way to accomplish this?



I was thinking if I could  pass a variable to the movie on launch.

set variable "light" = "1"

and then use an if / else statement to call the light swf instead of the

heavy I could do away with the alternate "index.swf".


But I have no idea how to do this..... any suggestions?


Thanks

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Mark Sheppard

AKA Zachnefein

zach29columbus [dot] rr [dot] com

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