Backdrop in Media

[Shari]

Lynn,

I cannot sell them on more than the $49 I've already sold them on.  I 
found a kludgie workaround.  I'm not totally happy with it but with 
that one danged Player issue I had to find some other way.  The 
backdrop is ridiculous.  I don't know of any products excepting a few 
games where the desktop is obliterated and cannot be gotten to.  I'm 
not sure who the target audience for Media is, but the Player should 
really not force the backdrop unless the stack creator believes it's 
useful.

There is no place that tells you exactly what the difference is 
between Media, Studio and Enterprise before you purchase.  There is 
no list of specific details, handlers, commands, nothing about the 
Player, I looked high and lo before making a case to them.  And Media 
allowed me to create exactly what they needed.  At their office.  On 
their nickel.  And as technically Media belongs to them (and 
Enterprise belongs to me), I could simply allow them to use the 
stacks with Media itself, which is what I've done.  I'd have much 
rather them use the stacks with the Player so that they cannot ball 
anything up or get confused.

I put in the preOpenStack handler to hide the Tools stack, Rev 
menubar and message box.  This created a bit of a weird bug where the 
browse tool became the select tool and you couldn't push a button or 
menu item or anything, so I had to add Choose Browse Tool after 
hiding the Rev stacks.

But they could still access the development environment with 
Control-keys and I discovered by right-clicking they get Rev menus. 
Haven't figured out how to turn this off.

Any road, if anybody knows a way to disable all the built in menu 
items accessed with control keys and right clicking anywhere, I would 
appreciate it.

Once they've been using the stacks awhile and I know all the bugs are 
worked out and everything they want added has been added, I could 
bring them home and turn them into a standalone to prevent them 
accessing where they shouldn't be.  But I was trying to use the 
Player as Rev intended Media stacks to be used with.

Shari



>Revolution Media has this limitation to narrow the scope of applications it
>can create to multimedia type projects that "own" the computer they are
>running on - meaning its great for a presentation, multimedia type game,
>kiosk and the like, but not so for multi window applications. At $49,
>Revolution Media is an extremely powerful package. If you want to build more
>sophisticated, professional applications, then Revolution Studio is the way
>to go. And thanks to the major price drop that happened not all that long
>ago, a Media -> Studio upgrade is an even better deal.
>
>If you already have Enterprise at home - I shouldn't have to be selling you
>on Studio or Enterprise ;-)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Lynn Fredricks


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