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
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