To: Multiple recipients of list DIRECT-L
I'd like to echo Daniel Plaenitz's advice on March 18, of "I've seen crashes on
closing when the actorlist still had something in it. Made it a habbit to always
have a set the actorlist=[] in each and every stopmovie handler."
I know that this "killing the movie with actors still living" was an issue for
Director-in-Authorware pieces awhile back, and I also recall some browser plugin
builds (beta? don't recall) where this could also occur. Should be fine in the
various environments now, though.
But when working with the actorList I'll usually clear it out in both startMovie
and stopMovie anyway, to address the issue noted in previous ReadMe files...
because the actorList is a global property its objects can persist while editing
the movie.
(I remember that Dave Shields came across this during development of D4, when he
wondered why his sprites in a new movie kept on migrating around the screen....
;)
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Tech Support
D. Plänitz