FLASH: ActiveX Problem with loadmovie .swf

[Len Harrison]

Hi folks,


This isn't a killer, but it *is* a headache. I'm using the ActiveX control

within a VB application. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to loadmovie

within Flash itself. All files are within the same directory. Things work

fine with a projector or standalone .exe. They just don't work within VB.


Here's some test code that *does* work in VB:

MsgBox CurDir

ChDir App.Path

MsgBox CurDir

Flashtest.Movie = App.Path & "/host.swf"


The MsgBox displays confirm the current directory is right, but if I change

Flashtest.Movie = App.Path & "/host.swf"

to

Flashtest.Movie = "./host.swf" or ".\host.swf" or "host.swf" it doesn't

work.

Big-deal, *except* host.swf has a bunch of loadmovie commands it needs to

execute and they don't work either, presumably for the same reason,

regardless of syntax. Now I can't hardcode the path because I don't know

where the user is going to install.


SO...all I'm left with is loading the movies with FSCommands from Flash back

to VB so I can use the App.Path syntax. And that works too.


Only problem, which is a headache but not a killer, is that I have three

potential platforms for delivery: VB, HTML, and Screensaver. And each

loadmovie alternative will work on only two of the three. I suppose I can

code both the FSCommand and the direct loadmovie into each frame and only

enable the FSCommand in VB. Otherwise I need to maintain multiple source

documents which is *not good at all*.


Could it be that the ActiveX control references it's own location as "."?


Anyway, I thought maybe I'm doing something wrong (though I haven't a clue

what it might be) and wonder if anyone else has run across this before and

solved it.


Any help appreciated,


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

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