Noob: Amazed yet confused - Dreamcard vs Revolution

[Alex Tweedly]

Peter T. Evensen wrote:

> It was my understanding that the online viewer launches in the Player 
> every time, because there is NO OTHER WAY to open a stack!  Again I 
> say this is bad UI design.  Unless you know to hit the folder icon, 
> you don't know how to open your stack file.
>
There are other ways (drag/drop, double-click), but I agree about the UI 
- I think I got the first three Bugzilla entries about the Player :-)

> Most Players I've seen, if they don't receive a doc to open at start 
> up, open up a standard Open File dialog asking "What file would you 
> like to run?"
>
Yeah - I guess RunRev were thinking that most usage would be of stacks 
on RevOnline (and local stacks would be more often run by dragging or 
double-clicking),  so didn't feel that was a good default behaviour. But 
that's only my guess.

> BTW, I just tried it, and turning off the check for updates does not 
> get rid of the online viewer.
>
Sorry - I was mis-remembering.  Turning off the check for updates does 
eliminate the problems caused by having a network connection but no 
internet connection (e.g. on a LAN behind a router which is 
disconnected), and that was misleading me into thinking it stopped the 
RevOnline check as well.

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