MC IDE launch using Revolution.exe

[J. Landman Gay]

FlexibleLearning at aol.com wrote:
> Ken Ray wrote...
> 
>> Richard and I discovered a few nights ago that  if you move the
>> 'mchome.mc' and 'mctools.mc' stacks into the directory  where 
>> the Revolution 2.8.1 application exists. The next time you launch  
>> "Rev", it will open the MetaCard IDE.
> 
> 
> Hey! Neat trick, Ken! 
>  
> [... Tries it ...]
>  
> Oops! Maybe on OSX, but unworkable under Windows XP. Yes, the Home.mc stack  
> launches but there is no mouse cursor and the font is shot.

The Home stack needs to have this handler added to the script of the card:

on startup
   if the version >= "2.7" then
     open stack "mctools.mc" -- Mac users can comment this out
     start using stack "mctools.mc"
     set the defaultStack to "home"
     reset cursors
   end if
   pass startup
end startup

Does that fix it?

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