Re: FLASH: Relative URL from Flash MC in Netscape and Explorer

[Jon Williams]

you might be able to use a <base href="http://www.blah.com/whatever.swf>

tag to tell the html page to look in the same spot that the swf is looking in.


I always put my html / swf / txt files in the same spot,

so, I'm not completely sure. (this technique should work

great on the CD)


Alternatively, you could create a "docRoot"

variable that you pass around so that you don't have

to screw around with relative paths at all. I've done

this before, but I've never implemented it on anything

very complex.


hope that helps

-jon


Ulf Schmidt wrote:


> Hi,

>

> this ist a difficult question I think:

> I've made an Flash MC wicht includes 4 possible ways to run.

> It's placed at one Webserver www.123.de and ist called from 3 other html

> documents on other Servers, www.456.de www.789.de www.abc.de (not the real

> Servernames of course!).

> I'd like to place an ASCII file at any of those Servers which then tells the

> SWF wich way to run.

> The ActionScript command is :Load Variables ("wo.txt", 0, vars=GET)

> I want it to load an ASCII file in the same Path as the HTML.

> So far so good.

> What hat happens is:

> In explorer relativ paths are defined from the HTML dokument (good one!),

> this means my idea works..

> But Netscape uses the Flash movie as starting point for the relative Path

> and doesn't load the right  ASCII file!

> Of coure I can put the Movie in each Domain, but my idea was to use the

> browser cache so that the user loads the movie one time and it flexible

> shows what is needet!

>

> The only way I think woud work is using a CGI wich tells the Movie from

> where its called.

>

> Now the Question:

> Is there better way, more easy than using a CGI?

>

> Thanks for any help

>

> Ulf

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