Hi Folks,

 

I have been adding increasing complex Flash movies (swf files) that include AS3 code to my DNN sites. One of the things that these movies do is access various graphic, document, sound, and video files. I have had path problems because it appears that Flash only "knows" about the first part of the URL, i.e. the main URL, but cannot resolve subfolders like Portals/0/… I am guessing that it because only DNN “knows” about that subfolder. I have gotten around this by setting up an XML file that contains the path(s) I need and placing it in the main folder pointed to by the URL or virtual path in IIS. That works OK. However, there is an anomaly I don’t quite understand. A Flash component (an FLV player) I use for video doesn’t behave as expected. Let’s say I have some graphics files in Portals/0/photos/ and some videos in Portals/0/videos/. I give Flash the two sub-paths. That works for the graphics files but not for the video files. The video files work if I provide the path as just videos/ without the portals piece!

 

Has anyone that is working with Flash and DNN or for that matter Flash and other web application frameworks noticed anything like this? Am I perhaps misperceiving what is going on with URLs in the DNN environment?

 

Thanks,

G. M.

Basically what I did was create a “master” xml file with the main path hard coded in an AS file for the master. That file in turn had paths for all graphic, videos, etc. In other words I overrode the defaults. It may not be aesthetically pleasing but it works.