Dreamcard, am I missing something?

[Richard Gaskin]

FWIW, this is now BZ#2895
<http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=2895>

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Dan Shafer wrote:
>  > On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>  >> If I understood the complaint correctly the problem is that even if
>  >> you launch the player by double-clicking a document, the player
>  >> doesn't recognize how it was launched and presents a GetFile dialog
>  >> anyway.
>  >>
>  > That may well be the case, but not on the system I was able to
>  > test on.
> 
> I didn't get the GetFile dialog either, but I did find some strangeness:
> 
> I have a PC here with a freshly-formatted disk (is that a redundancy? 
> <g>), and no Rev or MC installation has yet touched it.  Totally virgin.
> 
> I went to RunRev.com and downloaded the player, installed it.  So far so 
> good, except that when it was done I had the "Launch Application" 
> checkbox set yet it didn't launch the application.
> 
> So I went to Start->All Programs->Revolution DreamCard Player to launch 
> it. It launched okay.  Having confirmed the installation was good, I quit.
> 
> I copied a simple one-card stack I use for testing onto the PC and 
> double-clicked it.  Although the file's extension is ".rev", instead of 
> launching the Rev player I got a Win dialog letting me know that it 
> doesn't know what the heck the file is and how do I want to deal with 
> finding a program for it.  Curious.
> 
> I chose the option to select from a list of programs, but the Rev player 
> wasn't listed among them.
> 
> I found I was able to drop the test stack file onto the Player app to 
> launch it, and that worked okay (though we can't expect any normal Win 
> user to ever do such a thing).
> 
> But I also found (as Andre has complained) that I can also drop ANY file 
> onto the player and it will accept the drop.
> 
> Something's definitely not right with the registry settings the 
> installer uses.  I don't have the time right now to poke around in 
> RegEdit, but hopefully RunRev will and fix the installer.
> 
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>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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