Addressing for the internet

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Hello, question for anyone who has posted Flash sites online…I’m using Flash5 and I finished a site which has 3 pages, named “index”, “menu”, “logo”. I uploaded the files, both the html and .swf, to my httpdocs folder on my domain. The index.html page comes up no problem (which is my intro), I have an “enter here” button which brings you from the intro page (index) to the menu page, this part also works no problem This is a loadmovie into level action).

However, on my menu page I have a frame action which calls the “logo.swf”, to load. But this is not loading. In the loadMovie action, I called:

loadMovie(“logo.swf”, “placehold”);

in which “placehold” is a blank mc on the menu timeline. On my computer, I have these 3 files in the same folder. they all work properly and I have no problem, however, they do not work online. Is this because I have used the wrong addressing to call the files? I’m not using “_root.” because it is a seperate file. Do I use “_parent”? Please if anyone knows how to do the correct addressing please let me know. Also, when I upload these to be viewed online, what files need to be in the httpdocs folder? both html and .swf files?

If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it!! thanks, dave.

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hey dave.
I can’t think why the logo wouldn’t load, all I can suggest is to check and double check that all the files are properly uploaded and in the same folder, although I’m sure you have.
Is the logo.swf a large file? It might just be taking it’s time to load.

as for the html/swf file question, you need all of the swfs, but you only need the html file if it is actually used, eg. the index.html is obviously needed, however if the swf is being loaded using loadMovie then you don’t need to upload the corresponding html file.