Flash _getURL and _self doesn’t work!

Posted on December 2009 in Articles

Well what an interesting afternoon. Although I don’t use Flash very often, I like to think I know what I’m doing. I had been given a Flash file from another company in order to integrate the file into the clients websites. The file needed some additions as in order to link up some buttons. This is normally very simple using the actionscript _getURL(URL,”_self”), however no ever told me that from Flash 8 security setting have changed, so after some painful hours of rewritting the actionscript and uploading etc etc. All you need to do is add the following to your html!

<param name=”swfversion” value=”6.0.65.0″ />
<param name=”expressinstall” value=”Scripts/expressInstall.swf” />
    <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” />

If you can’t get _getURL “_self” to work I hope you find this post!

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