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

[Robert Bleeker]

I find it works best for me to have a base movie that is completely blank

except for a placeholder MC into which I load every other movie to be

displayed. That way i can have the initial (stub-movie) next to the html

file and so avoid any relative path problems.

This also gives me a place to put global variables that survive any number

of movie loads.


Robert


on 6/4/00 12:47 PM, Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media at

maildartfrogmedia [dot] com

 wrote:


> 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

> 



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