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activeWindow

Syntax

the activeWindow

Description

Movie property; indicates which movie window is currently active. For the main movie, activeWindow is the Stage. For a movie in a window, activeWindow is the movie in the window.

Example

This example places the word Active in the title bar of the clicked window and places the word Inactive in the title bar of all other open windows:

on activateWindow
	 set clickedWindow = (the windowlist).getPos(the activeWindow)
	 set windowCount = (the windowlist).count
	 repeat with x = 1 to windowCount
		if x = clickedWindow then
			(the activeWindow).title = "Active"
		else
			(the windowlist[x]).title = "Inactive"
		end if
	 end repeat
end

See also

on activateWindow, windowList