Re: FLASH: retrieving swf name

[Nathan Dicken]

Hi Jason,


You sure can...  Just use the "_url" property.  Some browsers may return

the entire URL such as http://www.whatever.com/yourswf.swf, whereas other

browsers may just return "yourswf.swf".


Try this:

Trace ("my URL: "&_url)


Nathan




>Hiya,

>

>Is it possible for a Flash file to be able to detect it's own file name?

>i.e. read it in as a variable. I know MM have reserved certain parameters

>such as eval($versionnumber) (or something like that) and was wondering if

>anybody knew of something similar for the file name??

>

>Cheers,

>

>Jason

>

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