where does "startup" message go when in IDE

[Richard Gaskin]

It's helpful to remember that the IDE is just a collection of stacks, 
which are run automatically whenever the development engine is launched.

So the Dictionary's explanation is correct, and the recipient of the 
startup message when running the IDE will be the IDE.

To initialize stacks simply and robustly in both development and at 
runtime, I use a preOpenStack handler in the script of the first card of 
the mainstack I'll later use to build the standalone from.

I don't think I've used the startup message since HyperCard.  HC never 
had any "pre" messages, and its IDE was written in a language other than 
its own, so the startup message was useful if not necessary there in 
ways that LC offers us much more control over.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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dunbarx wrote:
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> The dictionary says the message goes to the first stack in a new session. But I think the reason you are not trapping it if you place a handler in the stack script, and open that stack in a new session, is that other stacks open before the one you, say, double click on in the finder.
>
>
> Or I am wrong about that.
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>
> Craig
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com>
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> I've found the startup message, to be sent to the first stack opened.
>
> It
> seems useful, but I haven't been able to trap it in the IDE.
>
> In particular, I
> found an incantation to hide the stack or some such for
> use at the command
> line.
>
> Is it going to an IDE card?  Could I simulate it with a
>
> if the
> environment is "development" then
>
> dispatch "startup" to me
>
> end if
>
> as
> the first item of preOpenStack of the main stack (hmm, I suppose
> in
> beforePreOpenStack . . .)
>
> --
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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