What's the benefit? Why not just always use halt? I've been doing it for
years - no problems. I'm not sure why you're going through the trouble to
differentiate.
At 09:57 AM 6/13/01 -0400, Al Hospers wrote:
> > Actually, a better way out is to use 'halt'.
> >
> > In authoring mode (that is, in Director), quit will also exit
> > Director,
> > which makes it really annoying for testing. By using 'halt'
> > instead, the
> > movie will just stop.
>
>to cover both authoring & runtime modes I have found that this works well.
>use this code as a behavior on your Exit button:
>
> on mouseUp me
>
> smartQuit
>
> end
>
>then place this code as a movie script in your movie:
>
> on smartQuit
>
> if the runMode <> "Author" then
> QUIT
> else
> HALT
> end if
>
> end
>
>
>the reason for the distinction is that QUIT will cause the Director
>authoring environment to close, which is not what you want when testing.
>
>hope this helps
>
>Al Hospers
>CamberSoft, Inc.
>al<at>cambersoft<dot>com
>http://www.cambersoft.com
>
>A famous linguist once said:
>"There is no language wherein a double
>positive can form a negative."
>
>YEAH, RIGHT
>
>
>
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