Question

I know nothing about flash. I only need to change a few variables in a swf file. the swf file uses ../ for root directory, so, when I play this swf from other places than its designed directory, it will query wrong URL.

I can change to http://domain.com/ but it’s better I can use a proper expression for this. What’s that expression? Thanks!

Edit: the swf are in this directory:

root/domain/content/swf

the swf file has some ../url to query files under the content directory

root/domain/content/stuffs/items/files

If I play the swf in another directory, for example, root/domain/topics/stories/jokes/
then, the swf will query root/domain/topics/stories/jokes/files, this is wrong. So I want to use a fixed expression to replace ../

Answer 1

I’m not entirely sure what you are asking, but if it is about URL to the root of a web server, you can use / instead of the current ../. So URLs would for example be like “/myproject/myfile.xml”, if myproject is a directory directly under the root of the web server (this goes for URLs in general and is not Flash specific, URLs work the same way in Flash/ActionScript as elsewhere).

Edit: OK, after reading your edit of the question, I still would recommend using URLs with the full path from the root (getting to the root using an initial /), like /domain/content/ for the content directory, and URLs like /somefile.xml for files directly under the root.