A thread that calls start-ide can know that the IDE has finished starting up when this variable has been set to nil sometime after start-ide returns.
The function start-ide sets this variable to to t and then returns a new "IDE GUI" thread. The IDE GUI thread proceeds to start up the IDE, and then sets this variable to nil when the IDE is fully up.
See About IDE startup in cgide.htm for more information on IDE startup.
Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.
The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.
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