MoinMoin: BrianMcEnery/FlashTest

FlashTest

There appears to be a problem loading a runtime shared library into an swf using Flash MX 2004. The following test path explores it.

• The library to be imported is symbols_lib.swf, and is embedded ok.

• The importer does not load the library elements, although the message shows that the importer is being embedded. It is possible to view it by clicking on square_5_imp_mm.swf.

• To illustrate that this is not an isolated case the same happens with, symbols_lib_imp_mm.swf.

• Both of the importers use a url of the form

• and I am wondering does this compromise security in some way, and is that why the EmbedObject macro has a problem. I do not know exactly how this url is used, as it is buried in the authoring system. I have already used this to load one swf into another and it works ok.

• In the following, yc_source.swf is loaded into yc_get_loader.swf.

• The essential AS code is

     1 // clip to load
     2 var clipUrl = "yc_source.swf";
     3 var myGet = "?action=AttachFile&do=get&target="
     4 var myUrl = this._url;
     5 var index = myUrl.indexOf(myGet, 0);
     6 // index = -1 if not in MoinMoin
     7 if (index>=0) {
     8         clipUrl = myUrl.slice(0, index)+myGet+clipUrl;
     9 }
    10 this.createEmptyMovieClip("clip_source_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
    11 clip_source_mc.loadMovie(clipUrl);
  

• The fact that the swf's load correctly through the AttachFile action http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/BrianMcEnery/FlashTest?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=square_5_imp_mm.swf, suggests that there may be a glitch in the way the EmbedObject macro loads the swf.

• Any suggestions more than welcome