macromedia flash sitedesign: Maybe I have gone about this all wrong, but I have embedded swf's in my site so that when someone clicks an item in the nav menu, the new section loads (ie loadMovie). The problem I am having is if I make a change/update to the embedded swf, the change does not appear in the browser until I clear my cache ('delete files' in IE). Does anyone know how to force the browser to download the most updated file?

Thanks
- Chris

i think there is java script that will force the browser to refresh, not
sure exaclty how, but ive seen it somewhere, search google for it,
javascript should get you a head start

itsrainin


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site so that when someone clicks an item in the nav menu, the new section
loads (ie loadMovie). The problem I am having is if I make a change/update
to the embedded swf, the change does not appear in the browser until I clear
my cache ('delete files' in IE). Does anyone know how to force the browser
to download the most updated file?
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http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=avoid%20cache%20problem&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_ugroup=*flash&lr=&hl=en

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158 results in .9 seconds. That is faster than anyone here can answer your
question, so save yourself and us some time by doing some research yourself
before posting. A lot of the questions asked here have been asked before and
that's why the google archive is such a great place to start that research.

Hope it works out for you.

John

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Ok That Worked. For those of you that don't want to follow the link, here is the solution I am using:

if loading test.swf, then simply load test.swf?DATE=whateverthedateis

This will mean that the user will see an updated page within 24hrs.
If you want it to update more often simply tag on a timestamp after the date.
Since I use PHP remoting, I would simply grab the Unix timestamp which is different ever second.

Hope this helps everyone!