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
At 9:57 AM -0400 6/13/01, 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
>
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