MC IDE v2.6b6 posted

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I am having trouble using an alias in the plugins folder. I've tried 
> both OS X native aliases and unix-style symlinks. Symlinks used to work 
> in MC (though I could never get them to work in Rev) but now they don't 
> work in MC either. Anyone else?

This has not changed from b5, which has been out for nearly 6 months. 
The routine needed for checking the initialization properties must open 
the stack file to get at those properties, and I believe that while 
"open stack" honors aliases "get the <whateverProperty> of stack" does not.

There may be a way to use aliasReference for that.  Care to add support 
for that?

Since MC lets you choose the plugin folder, I've never used aliases 
since. But I certainly wouldn't mind if someone wants to add support for 
them, or hone in on the engine issue which prevents them from being used 
automatically.

> Also, in the "programming plugins" text file, there is a reference to a 
> Revolution property:
> 
> "In Revolution, the opening mode is defined for each plugin through 
> "Plugin Settings". To make MetaCard's plugins compatible with 
> Revolution, you need to set the custom property:"
> 
> And no property is named. Don't keep us guessing. ;)

Robert, got time to finish that?

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