For historical reasons. "Quit" was in Lingo from the beginning. But
people complained that executing "quit" when running in Director also
quit Director. So, Macromedia, (being the nice folks that they are
and not wanting to break any existing application where you might
want the existing functionality), introduced the new keyword "halt"
which does what developers really wanted.
Irv
At 10:24 AM -0400 6/13/01, Al Hospers wrote:
> > 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.
>
>well, historical I suppose. it's just a part of my code base. that said, it
>seems to me that at one time I found something not working properly when I
>used HALT in runtime. maybe you guys are correct, after all you have more
>experience thatn me, but in that case why are there two ways to exit a
>movie?
>
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