handling command line parameters

Brian Yennie briany at qldlearning.com
Fri Jun 10 19:16:29 EDT 2005


Jon,

Try starting your player in an "openStack" handler- the player object 
is probably not yet loaded at startup.

HTH,
Brian

> I've managed to handle command line parameters with my stack, but 
> something is strange.  The script looks like this:
>
> on startup
>  if $1 <> "" then
>    OpenTheFile $1
>    start player "myPlayer"
>    call "trackPlayer"
>    end if
>  end startup
>
> The problem is that, while the file is indeed opened (by my 
> OpenTheFile routine), the Player does not start.  Is there something 
> about not running the Player "too early" in the life of a stack, 
> before it has "woken up"?  When I run the same routine at any other 
> time, the Player does start up.
>
> :)
>
> Jon
>
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