stopMovie not executing

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Under what circumstances would the stopMovie handler not run?

I'm working on a program that was created by someone else. When QUIT is
selected from a drop down menu it goes to a marker "Exit" where on the third
frame after the marker an exitFrame handler with nothing in it but "quit" is
executed. I placed an alert inside the stopmovie handler and it doesn't
come up.

If I enter "stopMovie ()" just before quit, of course the alert comes up.

Isn't the stopMovie handler supposed to run anytime the projector quits or
after 20 years of using Director am I just finding out that stopMovie is
only for authoring? (I'm familiar with the situations in authoring when the
stopMovie handler is called and when it's not but my issue is in projector
mode only)

Craig

[Ned]

Hi Craig,

AFAIK, "on StopMovie" is triggered when you navigate from a movie to
another. Reading what you describe, it seems that quitting is executed
before it has a chance to happen.

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I'll experiment with that and verify that at least when navigating it
executes. I suppose if this is true, I could navigate to a quit screen to
insure that the stopmovie from the main movie executes (or I could just do
what I'm doing and call it explicitly before the "quit"

Thanks
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Post by Ned
Hi Craig,
AFAIK, "on StopMovie" is triggered when you navigate from a movie to
another. Reading what you describe, it seems that quitting is executed
before it has a chance to happen.