Linux Engine Licensing - Please Read

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> Not so long ago, I experimented with running my stacks as little 
> client apps with the engine in the bin folder of Mac OS X. This 
> allows me to run a stack like an application, without building a 
> standalone. Very much like running a Python applet. Have you 
> noticed that this is no longer possible in Rev 2.7? Do you now a 
> workaround?

In the olden days (MetaCard and the first few versions of Rev) you could 
double-click a file and it would run the engine without the IDE, 
allowing you to "preview" it similar to how it would be in a standalone.

In v2.7 the dev and runtime engines are separate, and I can't get the 
dev engine to run without an IDE and I can't get the runtime engine to 
run at all without being bound to an app.

I solved this for myself by building a simple stub app instead.  Now I 
can just drop my files onto that and it works a treat.  I even added a 
file association for a unique file type so I can have some stacks that 
only open in this stub app when double-clicked, so I can run things like 
my billing timer separate from the IDE I'm likely to restart often while 
I'm working.

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  Richard Gaskin
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