Standalone shell/console application

[Kevin]

I have not posted in a few days since I felt it necessary to ponder the following  question.  

Why isn't there a global property to disable the graphic subsystem?

Better yet a handler similar to "onStartup" is called only when the display/GUI is missing allowing developers to take action (run in console mode or GUI).  Many frameworks support this feature by creating GUI components as containers only when the DISPLAY/GUI is unavailable.  With a few tweaks RR could have one engine to support both CGI/CONSOLE and DISPLA/X/GUI systems and simplify their maintenance.

Please correct me if I am incorrect or I have missed some API which allows this (in a stand-alone).

Kevin

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