Fudge found to get relative addressing into flash file URL links.
I was trying to create a flash file for a website
(using Xara Xtreme Pro 5) and was irritated to find that it inserts "http://" in front of whatever text you enter in the "Link to be applied to whole amimation" field.
This was irritating as it stopped me entering a relative link, and seemed to be forcing me to enter abolute one.
e.g.
If my website is called "www.foo.com" and I want to use the *same* flash file in
different locations, I might want clicking on the splash page here
"www.foo.com/ABC/splash.html"
"www.foo.com/DEF/splash.html"
"www.foo.com/XYZ/splash.html"
...to take me respectively to here:
"www.foo.com/ABC/index.html"
"www.foo.com/DEF/index.html"
"www.foo.com/XYZ/index.html"
However, if I entered "index.html", in the Flash options ("Link to be applied to whole amimation") in XARA flash took me to a website called "http://index.html" (!)
The solution appear to be to enter a space before the:
"index.html"
...that is to say:
" index.html"
and this seems fool Xara into NOT inserting "http://" in front of the text that I have entered. This *seems* to allow relative addressing (in the 3 browsers that I have tried) but I think that this should really be considered a bug/mis-design of the software.
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Shiperton Henethe
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