[flexcoders] Referring to external assets from within Flash swf

[Giles Roadnight]

Hi All

This is a little complicated so I hop eI can make it clear!

we have a flex applciation that loads xml and displays pictures and videos.

These live in

assets/images/*.jpg
asets/videos/*.flv
assets/presentation.xml

and are referred to exactly as above.

When this applciation is to be used in the wild it will be played with an
exe file created with flash (so we don't have to rely on flash player being
on end users computer). This exe loads the swf as follows:

assets/presentation.swf

So the way I thought it woudl work is that the images and video folders and
the xml file would all go in the assets folder. Presentation.swf is fine
loading presentation.xml from assets but for some reason it does not find
the images and videos so they have to go in assets/assets/images.

why would the root folder for the xml be the exe folder but the root folder
for the images and vides be the swf folder?

Thanks


-- 
Giles Roadnight
http://giles.roadnight.name

RE: [flexcoders] Referring to external assets from within Flash swf

[Alex Harui]

We try to fix up relative paths in Image and SWFLoader in order to
handle more complicated scenarios.  URLLoader doesn't, so that may be
the difference.

 



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Hi All

This is a little complicated so I hop eI can make it clear!

we have a flex applciation that loads xml and displays pictures and
videos. 

These live in 

assets/images/*.jpg
asets/videos/*.flv
assets/presentation.xml

and are referred to exactly as above.

When this applciation is to be used in the wild it will be played with
an exe file created with flash (so we don't have to rely on flash player
being on end users computer). This exe loads the swf as follows:

assets/presentation.swf

So the way I thought it woudl work is that the images and video folders
and the xml file would all go in the assets folder. Presentation.swf is
fine loading presentation.xml from assets but for some reason it does
not find the images and videos so they have to go in
assets/assets/images.

why would the root folder for the xml be the exe folder but the root
folder for the images and vides be the swf folder?

Thanks


-- 
Giles Roadnight
http://giles.roadnight.name http://giles.roadnight.name