# Specifying path of images from external text link

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**Created:** [September 29, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724 "2004-09-29T01:37:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![coche09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@coche09](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/coche09)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724/1 "2004-09-29T01:37:43Z")

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well i dont know if that title explains it at all but here it goes:  
im loading an external text which has links that load different swfs into the main timeline, this is working perfectly (thanks Ubik, you showed me the way ). the problem im having now is that the images im loading are in separate folders (not where the main swf is), and i can’t figure out how to specify the path to them from the txt file  
this is the piece of code calling the images:

\<p\>\<a href=“asfunction:loadAndPlay,slideshow.swf”\>see project here\</a\>\</p\>

the path is: images/projects/slideshow.swf  
tried \<p\>\<a href=“asfunction:loadAndPlay,images/projects/slideshow.swf”\>see project here\</a\>\</p\> but it didnt work

arghghgh please help me out with this! its soooo frustrating \>.\<  
thanks in advance guys! :thumb:  
c

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724/2 "2004-09-29T08:33:21Z")

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maybe  
/images/projects/slideshow.swf  
this is only a guess mind you

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724/3 "2004-09-29T17:28:55Z")

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thanks krusader, but its still not working… ill keep trying i guess.  
now another quick question: i’ve seen with the asfunction you can assign 1 action to the link, can it be made to have more? ex: loading the swf AND going to a frame inside the main timeline, or loading 2 swfs? this didnt work either:  
\<a href=“asfunction:loadAndPlay,slideshow.swf,container”\>\<a href=“asfunction:loandAndPlay,slideshow2.swf,container2”\</a  
…aghgh i suck at this!  
c

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724/4 "2004-09-30T10:49:53Z")

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sorry, i got no ideas on this, not even a guess, once again, sorry and good luck

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**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/specifying-path-of-images-from-external-text-link/65724/5 "2004-09-30T13:06:11Z")

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I don’t know if you need to, but if you need to go up a folder you can put:

…/

for example if you have

Folder  
\> SubFolder1 \> file.swf  
\> SubFolder2 \> file2.swf

You can link from file.swf to file2.swf by putting:

…/…/Subfolder2/file2.swf

Don’t know if this can help you, but good to know anyway.