activeWindow

Usage

-- Lingo syntax
_player.activeWindow

// JavaScript syntax
_player.activeWindow;

Description

Player property; indicates which movie window is currently active. Read-only.

For the main movie, activeWindow is the Stage. For a movie in a window (MIAW), 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:

-- Lingo syntax
on activateWindow
   clickedWindow = _player.windowList.getPos(_player.activeWindow)
   windowCount = _player.windowList.count
   repeat with x = 1 to windowCount
      if (x = clickedWindow) then
         _player.window[clickedWindow].title = "Active"
      else
         _player.windowList[x].title = "Inactive"
      end if
   end repeat
end activateWindow

// JavaScript syntax
function activateWindow() {
   var clickedWindow = _player.windowList.getPos(_player.activeWindow);
   var windowCount = _player.windowList.count;
   for (var x = 1; x <= windowCount; x++) {
      if (x == clickedWindow) {
         _player.window[clickedWindow].title = "Active"
      }
      else {
         _player.windowList[x].title = "Inactive"
      }
   }
}

See also

Player