User Guide

590 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
MovieClip._url
Availability
Flash Player 4.
Usage
my_mc
._url:String
Description
Read-only property; retrieves the URL of the SWF or JPEG file from which the movie clip was
downloaded.
Example
The following example displays the URL of the image that is loaded into the image_mc instance
in the Output panel.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", 1);
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
trace("_url: "+target_mc._url);
};
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
image_mcl.loadClip("http://www.macromedia.com/images/shared/product_boxes/
112x112/box_studio_112x112.jpg", image_mc);
The following example assigns the ContextMenu object menu_cm to the movie clip image_mc.
The ContextMenu object contains a custom menu item labeled “View Image in Browser...” that
has an associated function named
viewImage().
var menu_cm:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
menu_cm.customItems.push(new ContextMenuItem("View Image in Browser...",
viewImage));
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", this.getNextHighestDepth());
var mclListener:Object = new Object();
mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
target_mc.menu = menu_cm;
};
var image_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
image_mcl.addListener(mclListener);
image_mcl.loadClip("photo1.jpg", image_mc);
function viewImage(target_mc:MovieClip, obj:Object) {
getURL(target_mc._url, "_blank");
}
When you right-click or Control-click the image at runtime, select View Image in Browser from
the context menu to open the image in a browser window.