How to get url from an SWF in Actionscript 3

Posted on October 10, 2007

Adobe sure did change alot with this new Actionscript 3 stuff. With all the extra hoops you have to jump through just to do something simple, they still somehow managed to make Flash 9 ten times faster.

of those is the _url field. It was a complete pain in the butt trying to figure out, but it’s not that bad. It’s all in the LoaderInfo() class.

Define it by doing something like so,

public var linfo:LoaderInfo = new LoaderInfo()

Don’t forget to…

import flash.display.LoaderInfo

Now anytime you want to refer to the url of the loaded SWF file, simply call

linfo.url

It’s that simple.

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