Re: Helper Application?
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display web-based content. That's not the same as the plugin, is it? That entry is from the v3.0 dictionary, long before the plugin was even in development. What does it mean for a Rev standalone to be configured by a web browser to display web-based content? Browsers let you specify what apps to open if they can't display web content themselves. So if you click a .rev link on a web page, and you have assigned the browser to use Rev to open .rev files, then the browser will pass the link off to Revolution and launch it. It's the same as assigning .doc files to Word. I didn't know the environment would change when that happens though. Me neither. I've used Rev standalones as helper apps before, but IIRC the app just gets an odoc event when the browser hands it a stack, and the engine doesm't bother to notice whether it was handed the stack from a browser or the Finder. I suspect this may be a holdover from the olden MC days when it was Unix-only. Would be nice if there was a way a standalone could distinguish how it was launched, though. There's a world of opportunities still unexploited with helper apps Yup. Take this technique, and point the custom URL to your Rev app. I'm doing it with FileMaker. http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/linktrigger/index.html ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Helper Application?
Bruce Robertson wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display web-based content. ... I've used Rev standalones as helper apps before, but IIRC the app just gets an odoc event when the browser hands it a stack, and the engine doesm't bother to notice whether it was handed the stack from a browser or the Finder. I suspect this may be a holdover from the olden MC days when it was Unix-only. Would be nice if there was a way a standalone could distinguish how it was launched, though. There's a world of opportunities still unexploited with helper apps Yup. Take this technique, and point the custom URL to your Rev app. I'm doing it with FileMaker. http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/linktrigger/index.html Thanks vor the link. That's a much better article than the one I got started with. :) I've been using that plist method for OS X, but the the mention of helper application as a value returned by the environment in the Rev Dictionary mystified me, so I finally tested that function out and see what happens: As I'd guessed, when a standalone is launched by a browser on both OS X and Windows, the environment returns standalone application and not helper application. This distinction was probably based on some Unix-specific oddity from the mid-90s when the environment was added to the engine. In the modern world, apparently a standalone has no way of telling whether it was launched by the Finder/Explorer, or a browser. Filed as RQCC #8322: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8322 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Helper Application?
The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display web-based content. That's not the same as the plugin, is it? That entry is from the v3.0 dictionary, long before the plugin was even in development. What does it mean for a Rev standalone to be configured by a web browser to display web-based content? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Helper Application?
Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display web-based content. That's not the same as the plugin, is it? That entry is from the v3.0 dictionary, long before the plugin was even in development. What does it mean for a Rev standalone to be configured by a web browser to display web-based content? Browsers let you specify what apps to open if they can't display web content themselves. So if you click a .rev link on a web page, and you have assigned the browser to use Rev to open .rev files, then the browser will pass the link off to Revolution and launch it. It's the same as assigning .doc files to Word. I didn't know the environment would change when that happens though. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Helper Application?
J. Landman Gay wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: The RevTalk Dictionary entry for the environment function lists helper application as one of the possible values the function can return: If the environment function returns helper application, Revolution is running as a helper application, configured by a web browser to display web-based content. That's not the same as the plugin, is it? That entry is from the v3.0 dictionary, long before the plugin was even in development. What does it mean for a Rev standalone to be configured by a web browser to display web-based content? Browsers let you specify what apps to open if they can't display web content themselves. So if you click a .rev link on a web page, and you have assigned the browser to use Rev to open .rev files, then the browser will pass the link off to Revolution and launch it. It's the same as assigning .doc files to Word. I didn't know the environment would change when that happens though. Me neither. I've used Rev standalones as helper apps before, but IIRC the app just gets an odoc event when the browser hands it a stack, and the engine doesm't bother to notice whether it was handed the stack from a browser or the Finder. I suspect this may be a holdover from the olden MC days when it was Unix-only. Would be nice if there was a way a standalone could distinguish how it was launched, though. There's a world of opportunities still unexploited with helper apps -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
