Re: FLASH: Anyone else noticed this sort of load movie behavior?

[Cheri Harder]

The path is relative only if you code it to be relative.  That is, from a

movie clip on the main timeline, "../" and "/" are both referring to the

main timeline (the first one is relative, the second absolute)  So, if you

have coded everything in that "loaded swf" as relative, then yes, it should

work.  I personally usually "hard-code" the path when I'm doing a movie,

especially when I don't know at the time that I'll be using it inside

another movie later.  Then I always have to go back in and change all the

path statements to make it work inside another movie.


So if your loaded movie had an internal Tell Target or reference to a

variable that referred to its own main timeline as "../" you'll be fine, but

if any of the code refers to a path with the hard-coded path statement

(starting with / rather than ..) then you'll have to change it.


Hope this is clearer!


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jason White" <

jason [dot] whiteusu [dot] edu

>


> A possibility, but I don't think so, cuz paths are still relative aren't

> they? I'll have to test that I guess.  But, I don't refer to that movie

> clip with any tell targets from outside of it.  In other words...I load

the

> clip api_demo.swf into the target holder1 in api_menu.swf.  The api_menu

> does no tell targets for the mc holder1  There are tell targets within

> api_demo.swf to embedde mc's.  It is self contained. There are tell

targets

> from within it.  If the path does change like that, it kind of defeats the

> reusability of symbols/movie clips using load movide doesn't it?

> Anyway...thanks,




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