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>
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