Re: FLASH: load movie problems

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:29 PM 5/23/2000 , you wrote:


> > Do the load movies have to be in the

> > same directory or something? (obviously I am using the correct path to load

> > them)

>

>oh duh. The other 5% is yes for some browsers they need to be in the same

>directory or using the directory of the swf that calls them as the base...

>there's a tech note about this on Macromedia's site.


And in some cases the browser looks for the .swf relative to the folder 

where the html document (NOT the .swf) resides. Best is either to have all 

.swf's and html in one folder, or use absolute paths to load movies 

("http://www.domain.com/folder/name.swf").


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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