placing multi swfs in same folder

[buddynelly]

hi to everyone,im a newbe in flash,but it seems im missing something.i have 4 swf files with their respective actionscripts and xml files all in their folders, i already embedded the first file into my index.html .i place the swf file and its actionscript(main.as) /xml(images.xml) files into my index.html folder and it worked.the Other flash folders have files also named main.as or news.xml for example,so i can,t place them into my index.html file becuase they would overwrite the already existing files with same name
.When i try to rename them so i can place all in my index.html folder,they don,t function anymore.i read somewhere here that i have to change
the public function of my main.as file if i want to change its name,i did,


For example,
public class Main extends MovieClip and
public function Main()

if you rename the file: Main2.as you must rename also:
public class Main2 extends MovieClip and
public function Main2()


but got errors from flash cs4.Can someone help me out how i can rename actionscript files to avoid conflicting names before placing them in my index folder?or maybe how to correctly link to the folder in which the are originally placed?i tried relative and absolute paths,but when i call my index.html file in firefox,only the frames show.when i go back to the folders where i placed my flash files and click on the swf files,they play .so how can i lonk my index file to this folders properly?im using dreamweaver cs4 and did the normal insert media.the only alternative i have is to put the files directly into my root folder (index,html folder)but as i mentioned above,i already got flash files there with thesame name
thanks for any help

[BronL]

I'm not sure I understand your entire post buddynelly (I don't mean to be rude, but your post is a bit difficult to read).

FYI, external actionscript is not required to run the swf once it has been published. I'm guessing you want to load external swfs into a swf within index.html? If so, you can say mc.loadMovie('subdir/a_different.swf'). Note: this is AS 2.0 - I don't know which version you're using.

You do need to be aware that in this scenario, paths (to xml etc) will be relative to index.html, so if you're trying to load xml from a_different.swf that has been loaded into index.swf, then the path will be subdir/xml/thexml.xml

Obviously directory names have been changed to protect the innocent.

HTH

[tango88]

Hi Buddynelly,

Like the previous poster, I'm not sure I fully understand.

The first thing is that you only use .as files when you create a .swf. What you would upload to a web folder is only a swf, not an .as file. You still need to upload your xml files tho, if there is data externally loaded.

Okay then, when you renamed your files and you got errors, which errors did you get? The error messages in as3 are usually very specific and can really help yuo pinpoint the issue.