running the Player

[Charles Hartman]

Well, it's me too. Is there a bug report on this? If so I'll be glad  
to spend votes on it. As things are, I'm going to have to wrap my app  
(=stack) in warning stickers.

Charles

On Aug 13, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Yeah, as I've said here before, the Player just isn't well  
> documented or understood.
>
> It *appears* to me that it is RunRev's intent that the Player  
> should *never* be launched directly, but only indirectly by double- 
> clicking on a stack. The problem, of course, is that you can't  
> prevent users from launching it.
>
> I think it should either:
>
> (1) Display message that says, in essence, "This is a Player. You  
> got to give it something to play with. Pick a stack file, double- 
> click it and then see how great it is"
>
> Or
>
> (2) Present with a file selection dialog (filtered for stacks if  
> possible).
>
> But that's just me.