How to tell when IDE is done loading

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/24/2014 11:57 AM, Michael Doub wrote:
> I have tried that but I need to process the resumeStack message which
> seems to get called as part of the startup process.

Resumestack shouldn't be sent normally when a stack opens. There's a 
difference between starting up a standalone and starting the IDE though; 
it may be that some of the IDE stacks need to deal with resumestack. But 
your own stack shouldn't need to.

> I guess I have to
> manually set a global flag and have the timed handler unblock the
> flag.   What is the very first handler that an application can process?
> Startup?

Again, it depends. In a standalone the first message is startup. The 
stack isn't fully loaded at that point so you can't manipulate stack or 
card objects yet but you can set global properties there.

But in the IDE, LiveCode itself catches the startup message and your 
stack will never receive it. The first message your stack will get is 
preOpenStack.


> Is there an ordered list of messages that are fired for startup and
> opening a stack?  Opening a card would be useful too.   I can't say that
> I have ever seen this anywhere in the documentation.

It follows the normal message path in reverse, starting with the stack 
messages followed by background group messages and then card messages. 
If there are card groups on the first card, they get sent last.

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