Miaw in dir mx 2004

Question

in director mx 04 i want to display a miaw and make this
window close itself once the video in the miaw is finished playing.
Can i do this by adding some script to the mouseup i made that
opens the miaw? (see code example) all i need is to get it to close
itself, i dont want the user to have to click another button to
close and remove and miaw from memory manually...

Answer 1

Yes, this can be done, but not (easily) by adding code to the
handler
that opens the window. Instead, place the following scripts
in the MIAW
file (home.dir).
Before that though, a couple of points about the code you
posted: once
you've set a window's rect and opened it, you don't need to
make it
visible. And you should drop the extension from the filename
- it's not
required, and if you protect or compress the file to dxr or
dcr your
code will break. And you should provide a path to the file
too:
on mouseUp me
w = window().new ("miaw")
w.fileName = "@/home"
w.rect = rect(500, 0, 1000, 768)
w.open()
end
In home.dir, add the following, as a #score script, to the
sprite that
plays the video. I'll assume it's a QuickTime file it plays -
if not, be
specific:
property spriteNum
property my
property myDuration
on beginSprite me
my = sprite(spriteNum)
myDuration = my.member.duration
end
on exitFrame me
if (my.movieTime >= myDuration) then
_player.activeWindow.close()
end
Now add the following handler in a #movie script:
on closeWindow
script("window.closer.class").new(_player.activeWindow)
end
And finally create a #parent script, name it
"window.closer.class"
(without quotes) and add the following to it:
-- window.closer.class
property pWindow
on new me, aWindow
pWindow = aWindow
pWindow.forget()
t = _player.windowList[1].movie.timeOut().new(string(me),
-1,
#mClose, me)
end
on mClose me, aTimer
pWindow = VOID
aTimer.forget()
end