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on stopMovie

Syntax

on stopMovie
	statement(s)
end

Description

System message and event handler; contains statements that run when the movie stops playing.

An on stopMovie handler is a good place to put Lingo that performs cleanup tasks—such as closing resource files, clearing global variables, erasing fields, and disposing of objects—when the movie is finished.

An on stopMovie handler in a MIAW is called only when the movie plays through to the end or branches to another movie. It isn't called when the window is closed or when the window is deleted by the forget window command.

Example

This handler clears global variables and closes two resource files when the movie stops:

global gCurrentScore
on stopMovie
	set gCurrentScore = 0
	closeResFile "Special Fonts"
	closeResFile "Special Cursors"
end 

See also

on prepareMovie