Re: FLASH: Relative Pathnames using Test Movie command

[Kurt Dommermuth]

At 04:06 AM 9/5/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>Is there anything equivalent to using "*" (the star character) in the 

>"loadmovie" action for a root relative pathname while testing a movie 

>using the "Test Movie" command (from the Control menu). I'm trying to load 

>movies that reside in folders inside my "root" or "*" folder.

>

>I can load a movie successfully using the "Publish Preview Command", or 

>when I load my site from my server, but I can't get any movies to load 

>when I use the "Test Movie" command. I'd really like to have access to the 

>trace window.

>

>Am I missing something? BTW, I'm using Flash 4.

>

>Mark Zukiwsky

>Edmonton, Canada


Hi Mark,


I'm not aware of an equivalent to "*", but you can use "../" before the 

file name to climb up directories.   Forgive me if this is something you 

were already aware of, but for instance if you wanted to load "movieA.swf" 

into "movieB.swf" and "movieA.swf" is one directory level up, then the path 

name would look like;


Load Movie ("../movieA.swf", (pick a level)).


If "movieA.swf" were two levels up then it would look like


Load Movie ("../../movieA.swf", (pick a level)).


and so on.


I just tested this and had success with it on my local machine, but I 

should say that a long time ago I had problems with this on a client's 

server.  Unfortunately I can't remember what the specific problems were, 

but ultimately I realized that the best thing to do was to include all 

.html and .swf files in the same directory.  Sloppy, but consistent.


hope this helps,


Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com





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