We have a swf which has navigation and other UI (a.swf).  From this
file, we dynamically load external swf's (x.swf) based on user
interaction.  The paths to these swf's are stored in a database, and
do not share any common path.

Loading the external movie (x.swf) is no problem, but when a
particular movie has external assets itself (such as flv's etc), file
paths become invalid, since a.swf and x.swf are not on the same
relative path.  Is there a way to dynamically set, or change the base
path for x.swf when its loaded, so that all relative paths for
external assets become valid for x.swf?

Thanks for any help.

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Clarification of Question by antiflash-ga on 26 Sep 2005 14:53 PDT

Ok, we have found how to do this with some external javascript...

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m = document["movieID"];
m.base = "newPath";
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Now, can anyone tell me how to do this from within the actual swf (not
using javascript)?

Paths can be completely dynamic. Declare a variable on the _root
timeline in your "a.swf" file as follows:

var xPath:String;

Then in your loaded (x.swf) files, you can change that variable to
reflect the path you require:

_root.xPath = "yourPath/";

To load elements in that path, you would have to reference the xPath
variable and then concatenate any additional parameters onto that, as
follows:

loadMovie(_root.xPath + "myMovie.flv", "yourTarget");

Hope this helps, I can get more specific if needed.