defeating RR's startup oddities

[Richard Gaskin]

Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:

> I sent a stack to a colleague who uses RR rather than mc to run an
> experiment.  On preopenstack, the stack does the usual to prevent the
> experimental participants from clicking menus or background with
> untoward effects:
> 
> on preopenstack
> hide menubar
> set the decorations of this stack to empty
> set the backdrop to black
> end preopenstack
> 
> In Metacard, things work as they should when the stack is dbl-clicked
> (and mc not open).  In RR, in contrast, all the usual palettes open,
> *then* the script above is executed, and then the stack itself
> disappears from the screen.  Is there some preference (or command) in
> RR that will defeat this unconscionable behaviour?

Rev's behavior is the opposite o0f MC's:

MC acts as a player when launched by double-clicking a document.  This can
be overridden by holding down the Command key (Mac) or Control key (Win)
when double-clicking a stack file to tell MC to also open its IDE.

In Rev the default behavior is to launch the IDE, with the Command/Control
override acting to suppress the IDE to behave as a player.

-- 
 Richard Gaskin 
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