But Al, there is no need to do this extra work. As Tab pointed out,
the beauty of "halt" is that it does this check for you. At
author-time, halt will just stop the movie and keep you in Director.
At execution-time, it will quit the executable. I've been using it
for years this way.
Irv
A
> didn't call stopMovie.
ah... that's what I seem to remember. I suppose it's funny that piece of my
library is that old
thanks for the info
Al
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Well, if I recall correctly, quit was always there, but took you all the
way out. Halt used to originally literally halt the work, and the bug (at
least back in v4), or feature, was that it just stopped everything, and
didn't call stopMovie. Over the years, somewhere, it got to where it woul
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 fu
> 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
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,
> 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 w
Attach this script to your exit button
on mouseUp
quit
end
> --
> From: Mariel Montufar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: how can I exit the movie?
>
> HI,
>
> I'
>Attach this script to your exit button
>
>on mouseUp
>quit
>end
>
> > --
> > From: Mariel Montufar[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:04 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: how can I ex
HI,
I'm new in Lingo, and I can't find out how to make that when the user
running my movie, can press the button 'Exit' and the movie closes.
Hope someone can give me a hint
Thanks,
Mariel
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