ActionScript 3.0 :: Embedded Swf Not Loading Assets?
Oct 3, 2011
I have a site that contains a page with a fancybox pop up which contains a .swf.This swf loads a sound file and a thumbnail (mp3 and jpeg). When I view this by double clicking the swf it works fine, when I navigate directly to the swf in the browser it works fine, however when I try to view the embedded swf it does not load the jpeg or the sound file. I have another page which does the exact same thing except it loads a different swf which only loads a video file and this works perfectly.
AS3 code :
Code:
package www.elementalstudios.co.za {
import flash.display.Sprite;[code].....
Where the $theInner is a javascript variable that is used to set the innerHTML value of the div that I want to have containing the swf and $jUrlArray is an array of filepaths to various folders containing different sound files and thumbnails (each folder also contains the swf).The thinking is that the swf looks for the files as "sound.mp3" so the swf would assume that file is in the same folder it is in, therefore I'm only loading the swf from the different folders.
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