path of loadMovie

Hi, all

I have this question about the path of loadMovie in flash.

I have two swfs. 2.swf will be loaded into 1.swf. I put these two swfs into a folder called media. Outside this media folder there is a index.html into which 1.swf is embeded.

I have to include the foder name into the path like this to make it work.

loadMovie("media/2.swf")

But this way, when I test 1.swf directly inside the media folder, nothing will be loaded.

It's so weird. Is it the way things are supposed to work?

Thanks in advance!

That's it.
Imagine your in your living room,
you know the path to the bathroom in your bedroom is "bedroom/bathroom".
Now if your in the bedroom the path would be "bathroom", if it were "bedroom/bathroom" you would know that you are allready in the bedroom & go from there, flash however is going to look for the bedroom because it has been instructed to, if you tell it to go to "bedroom/bathroom" it's going to look for a bedroom door no matter where it is.

Yea, try loadMovie("../media/2.swf");

... That's like walking from the livingroom into the bedroom & instead of just walking into the bathroom you walk back out into the livingroom then back into the bedroom then go to the bathroom.

I might pee myself by then

thanks joebert and forest.

loadMovie("../media/2.swf");

hmm, but this one didnt work. i want the path work for both situations, in the folder and outside the folder. but i just realized that it's impossible.

i guess i will declare a variable and use the value of that variable as the path. this way, by changing the vaule of the variable i can change the path easily.