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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> not sure about this one...


> On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Wobbly wrote:
>
> > I have cd based system of movies that cause a win 98 program error
> > (sometimes) on exiting... No problems on win XP or win 95.
> > the movie use 2 MIAWS one for system navigation dir movie  to dir movie
and
> > one for navigation within a dir movie. the crash occurs on the close
screen
> > the two miaws mentioned above are closed and forgotten.
>
> You've got a lot of MIAWs happening here; that can cause difficulties on
> Win when you're trying to close 'em out if they're still in the process of
> talking either to each other or your stage.
>
> You might want to do this in framescripts in your main movie. These would
> start at a marker that your quit-confirm MIAW would take the user to after
> the quit was confirmed:
>
>   on exitFrame
>     close window yourQuitConfirm
>     close window yourNavigator
>     close window theOtherMIAW
>   end
>
> ...then, in the next frame:
>
>   on exitFrame
>     forget windoow yourQuitConfirm
>     forget window yourNavigator
>     forget window theOtherMIAW
>   end
>
> ...and, in the final frame:
>
>   on exitFrame
>     QUIT
>   end
>
> In theory this closes and forgets everything *before* the quit happens.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -- WthmO

Cheers!,
I'll give it a go in the morning

best wishes
wobbly from  a slightly calmer Eastbourne


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