How to: When QTime Movie stops jump to marker?

What the error message tells you is that this property ("playing") isn't valid for the type of sprite you have. Playing is valid only for Flash sprites, while you say you're using a Quicktime movie. The relevant property to use here is movierate. This will work:

if sprite(1).movierate = 0 then --i.e. stopped

This confusion could probably be avoided, but for now it is how it is. Remember that in any scriptwindow you have dropdown menus where all Lingo terms are sorted as to where they will have a function, i.e. all valid Quicktime properties are found under Quicktime member / Quicktime sprite, and similar for Flash member / sprite. This is a great tool for both beginners and people like me who suspect ..... (can't remember) .... Alzheimer is kicking in early this fall.

Thanks for the help guys...


When I implement the code below the playhead jumps before the movie is complete. Is "go to the frame" not the correct way to say "stay here"?

on exitFrame me
if sprite(1).movietime > sprite(1).duration - 20 then
go to the frame
else go to "test"
end if
end

on exitFrame me
if sprite(2).movierate > 0 then
go the frame
else go to "welcome"
end if
end


This code seems to do what I need. Note: I use sprite(2) because my sprite is in channel 2.

Bouke was on to something in his suggestion, but you could try and reduce the number after the minus sign, i.e

vD = member("myVideo").duration
if sprite(2).movieTime > vD -5 then
go "somewhere"

Note that you should NOT use movieTime = duration, as very often the movie will stop just short of its full length (I can explain if you like, but...). With the minus number you make a little cushion there at the end, but if you make it too large, you will indeed see it jump too early.

As for your other questions:

In Director you need only one frame actually, for any movie in any length. Five to ten frames is more common, simply becauce the Score looks tidier.

There's nothing wrong with having your scirpt within the on ExitFrame handler, but it is concidered good practice to have the main block of the scripting inside the on enterFrame handler instead, with only the go to the frame command inside on exitFrame. It's tidy too, but the real reason is that Director allocates a little more time to the on enterFrame handler, so at least long and complex frame scriptiong should definetly be placed there.