Re: FLASH: Can a child movie Automatically call another child movie?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 06:38 AM 4/4/00 , you wrote:


>For some reason I'm having trouble getting a child movie to load another

>movie.

>

>I have a Parent movie that on a button release calls a child movie, and

>about halfway thorough that child movie it calls another child movie to

>start playing.   But that 2nd child movie never starts.  It's in a folder

>one level lower, but it is called correctly, "folder/child2.swf"

>

>They don't have to be in the same folder do that?  That would create a huge

>folder, 100+ swf's.   The reason that I have so many swf's is that it's to

>big for one swf, so I'm attempting to save space by re-using some elements.


This is inconsistent between browsers. In some, the browser looks in the 

folder relative to the .swf (which most of us would consider "correct") but 

in others (Mac I.E. ?) the browser looks in the folder relative to the 

hosting HTML page. One work-around is to use the entire Web path (beginning 

with "http://"). Another is the one you're trying to avoid -- put all 

.swf's in the same folder as the html files.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

http://www.dartfrogmedia.com



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