Some advice about Dreamcard player

[Alex Tweedly]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 4/22/05 8:23 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:
>
>> I have had no experience with the Player. Does it run just Dreamcard 
>> stacks or any Run Rev stack?
>
>
> There are some glitches to be aware of, but I don't use player enough 
> to know what they all are. The main thing people complain about is 
> that file access, both read and write, is blocked by default. This is 
> intentional for security. To overcome that, click the Rev icon in the 
> upper right corner of the player to show the preferences, and uncheck 
> the last checkbox to turn off "secure mode". Player will now allow 
> disk access, but be aware that if you run any untrusted stacks, they 
> can mess with your hard drive. Secure mode stays off across sessions 
> until you turn it on again. You have to set each player this way on 
> each machine.

Note "secure mode" prevents Network Access, as well as file access.

> The other thing I've noticed is that player doesn't provide any 
> default menus. If your stack does not have its own menus, your users 
> will have only an empty menu bar and no command key equivalents.

And there is Bug 2294 - In the Player, stacks have no "home" directory.
So any of
  the filename, the effective filename, the long filename, ... of this stack
are empty.

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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