> 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 [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
