From 28c1e77b60158d58e3d6d136ba3fb02936109fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Ruston <jeremy@jermolene.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:15:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make sure rootwidget is available before background actions
 start

---
 core/modules/startup/load-modules.js | 10 ++++++++++
 core/modules/startup/startup.js      | 10 ----------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/modules/startup/load-modules.js b/core/modules/startup/load-modules.js
index deb6493c6..37e4c7825 100644
--- a/core/modules/startup/load-modules.js
+++ b/core/modules/startup/load-modules.js
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ exports.synchronous = true;
 // Set to `true` to enable performance instrumentation
 var PERFORMANCE_INSTRUMENTATION_CONFIG_TITLE = "$:/config/Performance/Instrumentation";
 
+var widget = require("$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js");
+
 exports.startup = function() {
 	// Load modules
 	$tw.modules.applyMethods("utils",$tw.utils);
@@ -42,6 +44,14 @@ exports.startup = function() {
 	// The rest of the startup process here is not strictly to do with loading modules, but are needed before other startup
 	// modules are executed. It is easier to put them here than to introduce a new startup module
 	// --------------------------
+	// Create a root widget for attaching event handlers. By using it as the parentWidget for another widget tree, one can reuse the event handlers
+	$tw.rootWidget = new widget.widget({
+		type: "widget",
+		children: []
+	},{
+		wiki: $tw.wiki,
+		document: $tw.browser ? document : $tw.fakeDocument
+	});
 	// Set up the performance framework
 	$tw.perf = new $tw.Performance($tw.wiki.getTiddlerText(PERFORMANCE_INSTRUMENTATION_CONFIG_TITLE,"no") === "yes");
 	// Kick off the filter tracker
diff --git a/core/modules/startup/startup.js b/core/modules/startup/startup.js
index 9092c5026..21e756b30 100755
--- a/core/modules/startup/startup.js
+++ b/core/modules/startup/startup.js
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ exports.name = "startup";
 exports.after = ["load-modules"];
 exports.synchronous = true;
 
-var widget = require("$:/core/modules/widgets/widget.js");
-
 exports.startup = function() {
 	// Minimal browser detection
 	if($tw.browser) {
@@ -54,14 +52,6 @@ exports.startup = function() {
 	}
 	// Initialise version
 	$tw.version = $tw.utils.extractVersionInfo();
-	// Create a root widget for attaching event handlers. By using it as the parentWidget for another widget tree, one can reuse the event handlers
-	$tw.rootWidget = new widget.widget({
-		type: "widget",
-		children: []
-	},{
-		wiki: $tw.wiki,
-		document: $tw.browser ? document : $tw.fakeDocument
-	});
 	// Execute any startup actions
 	$tw.rootWidget.invokeActionsByTag("$:/tags/StartupAction");
 	if($tw.browser) {