Comments on: (Perhaps) Unexpected Point of View: SWF Defers to HTML

by: David Stiller

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:22:54 +0000

kiz,

Not sure which comment you’re replying to, but I agree that a path is only needed once. If it’s stored in a variable, you can reuse that reference anywhere you need to inside the SWF.

by: kiz oyunlari

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:00:21 +0000

I can’t think of any way to do that. Clearly, you’re going to have to mention the folder’s name at least once. Once you’ve done that, you can continue to use that same path, of course. You could store the path in a variable. In fact, you could even specify the value of that variable from outside that SWF. Maybe that’s what you’re after?

by: David Stiller

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:30:22 +0000

kral,

Sure thing.

by: kral oyun

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:06 +0000

My dear friend
Thank for god idea and sharing this work.

by: David Stiller

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:13:37 +0000

To Shaun …

Hoo hah! Glad to hear that.

To Gorka …

That’s a great idea! Thanks for sharing that.

by: Gorka

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:14:26 +0000

What I usually do to solve this problem is give the swf the html’s relative path via FlashVars. Inside the swf there is a default path that would be used if there is no Flashvars’s path (meaning you’re using the projetor in the developer enviroment).
This way I always use relative paths (except for uploading/downloading files, which strictly requires http(s); hence you need the full path).

Cheers,
Gorka
http://www.AquiGorka.com/blog

by: Shaun Richardson

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:38:14 +0000

Champ! I cant believe I had to trawl the web forever!
Problems all sorted cause of your simple explanation.
Thanks

by: David Stiller

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:29:04 +0000

To alex leung …

Glad you figured it out!

To Santanu …

Sorry for the delayed reply! I’m still settling in after a dynamite trip to Las Vegas for TODCon. Unfortunately, there isn’t a setAppPath() function in Flash (if memory serves me, Lingo offers something like this for Director). But maybe I don’t get what you’re asking. Were all these files originally in one place, and now they’re in another? It shouldn’t really matter, either way, as long as the menu knows where each file is. If it helps, you can certainly declare a string variable — say, appPath — and precede your various SWFs with that variable. You can set it to an empty string ("") for SWFs that are in the same folder as the SWF that loads them, and populate it with partial paths to SWFs in other locations.

by: Santanu

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:38:47 +0000

Hi David,
I gotta typical problem here. I have several multimedia applications made in flash. Each application inturn calls hundreds of smaller swfs which reside in their same folder as the applications and they work well within the application. Now I wanted a single menu that calls each application’s starting swf. Upto this it is fine the menu calls the first swf. The rest of the swfs are not called. And I am in no mood to re-publish each set of those hundred swfs with additional path prefix.

Is there a method or a workaround like setAppPath(”//New Application”) before calling a loadMovie()

menu.swf
//App Folder1
1.swf
2.swf
3.swf
…
//App Folder2
1.swf
2.swf
3.swf
…

by: alex leung

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:19:37 +0000

David,

We figured it out. it now works in our dev environment. no need to reply but thanks for this very helpful article int he first place.