Three other things I don't understand are:Hi Jonathan,
1. Why, when I close "Launcher.rev" and then open it again, does it change
from Modeless to TopLevel by itself?
2. Why does "Launcher.rev" open automatically when I launch "Revolution"?
(I may have set this behaviour myself - after all it mimics HyperCard's
Home, which is what I want - but I have no idea how, if I did.)
3. Revolution's documentation says there's a Home stack, but where is it?
Check out the entry for "style" in the Transcript Dictionary - at the bottom it defines the various styles that can be set for stacks.
I think the answer to question 2 is relevant to question 1, so starting in the middle :-)
2. You have placed your Launcher in the plugins folder where it's behaviour is governed by the Plugin settings. Go to the Development menu -> Plugins. At the bottom you will see Plugin Settings. Choose your Launcher stack from the popup menu at the top and check it's current settings. I would guess that it is set to "Open when Revolution starts up" and "Open as modeless dialog".
Now back to question 1: The answer to Q2 probably explains why Launcher starts modeless, but if you close it and then restart normally (not from the plugin menu), it will revert to it's natural setting. Unless you have specifically changed it's style to modeless, it's default style will be topLevel so it will be completely editable. If you re-open it from the Plugins menu, I think it will open modeless again, but I'm not sure about that.
3. Rev does have a Home stack, but it isn't like HyperCard's Home. You aren't supposed to use it as a Launcher and it is mostly invisible. It contains a lot of substacks like ask, answer, message watcher, error display etc. If you turn on "Revolution UI Elements in List" in the View menu, then open the Application Browser, you will see the Home stack listed, but it is password-protected so unlike a lot of the interface stacks, you can't poke around in the Home stack.
Cheers, Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.troz.net/Rev/
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