Flash movie and image paths (relative - absolute?)

[LoveToCode]

I have a flash movie in an ASP.NET web application (I am software dev not a flash person). The SWF looks at an XML file that passes in an image url that is then in turn displayed on in that movie:

http://wisetopic.com/profile/index02.aspx?userid=66

In the XML the image path I pass I have tried several options. Here is the image:

http://wisetopic.com/_mediaStore/image/1.jpg

I tried the actual url (above). I tried relative (../../_mediaStore/image/1.jpg) I tried root relative (/_mediaStore/image/1.jpg)

The SWF lives in

root - /profile/userPlayer/UserPlayer.swf

the XML is in the same directory. The HTML page is

root - /profile/


None of them work!! What the heck?! Please heeelp me!

-- jenni

 

[kennethkawamoto]

You can use either absolute path or relative path. Is it reading the XML correctly in the first place?

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[thompom]

hi - am having the same issue with paths
to xml files and links on text
the only way i am gettin success is to include full
url

http://server/site/page

this is fine on my laptop - but when i move to a different
server this will cause issues

how do i get flash to always look from the root of the site
without having to put the server name in?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Use relative path. But if your SWF is in the different directory from your HTML the path becomes relative to the HTML, that's probably your problem. If so use [tt]this._url[/tt] to obtain the URL of the SWF first then resolve the path to your XML using that URL.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk