External files need explicit path

Question

I have a interesting quirk in the Flash app I'm working on.
I'm finding that everything that is loaded externally (movie clips,
XML files, even the skin for FLVPlayer controls) needs a full path
in order to be found, even though the files are all in the same
directory as the player. In other words something like "
http://www.mydomain.com/subdir1/subdir2/file.swf"
versus just "file.swf". The interesting thing is this same
application works fine in other places without a full path. The
difference is that for the other places, the player is in the same
directory as the HTML and for my use it is one level down. So my
HTML is in subdir1, myApp.swf is in subdir1/subdir2 and the HTML
params are src='subdir2/myApp.swf', movie='subdir2/myApp.swf',
id='myApp.swf', name=myApp.swf. Do id and name need to have the
directory path too? If myApp.swf and the files it loads are all in
subdir2 why can't it find them without an explicit path?

Answer 1

Hello dubwai,
One thing you might want to check when setting your path is if the directory that you're adding to the path variable has spaces in it, where Microsoft Internet does...
I am writing you from a Solaris box, so can't check how to include spaces in the PATH variable, but I believe you would enclose the directory with " " signs? I know you placed " " signs in your question, but you also did for "iexplore" and "iexplore.exe", so didn't know if you actually enclosed them, or if they were just used to emphasize the strings....
Hope this helps,
Ming
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