I'm interested in writing such a binding. Definitely it'll be the first binding that I write for Mac! :)
But don't know if it's also useful in other cases or for somebody else. And I need to learn how to do it...
OK, what I need to write a C/C++ binding? I have a powerbook g4, with tiger and xcode installed, and firefox for sure. What else?
Best regards,
Calvin
----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Lambert <email@hidden> Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:51 am Subject: Re: How does 'Finder' open an application and bring the window to the front? To: Calvin Liu <email@hidden> Cc: email@hidden
> You would probably need to create a C or C++ language binding to > the > Launch Services framework to be able to do it "beautiful". > I don't > know how interested in that you would be. > > -- Terry > > On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Calvin Liu wrote: > > Hi, Terry, > > > > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > Actually I'm working on a Firefox addon which provide user > the > > feature to switch among existing profiles. So I can use a > Firefox > > method to start another independent Firefox process. But the > new > > Firefox is always behind the previous one. I got the idea to > use > > "open" from mozilla community, so I did some trick like this: > > > > 1. write a shell script to start Firefox in a new process > > 2. create a fake.app folder which contains necessary > folder > > structure/files to make it looks like an application to "open" > > 3. write another shell script to "open" this fake.app > > 4. call the 2nd script from my addon. > > > > It works but seems not to be a "beautiful" solution. So > I'm > > wondering if there's any other way to solve it. If you have > any idea > > about that, could you please let me know? Thanks a lot! > > > > Sincerely yours, > > Calvin > > > > Terry Lambert wrote: > >> On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Calvin Liu wrote: > >>> Hi, there, > >>> > >>> On Mac, if I run a command in terminal and start a GUI > >>> application, the new window is always hide behind the > current > >>> window. So does start apps from other application like firefox. > >>> But noticed that double click an icon in "Finder" can start > it > >>> correctly. So I did some test and found that if I wrap the > command > >>> into a fake ".app" folder and use "open -a fake.app", it'll > show > >>> the new window in the front. It's not good solution and I'm > sure I > >>> haven't got the root reason. > >>> > >>> I suppose there is an option in the configuration file of > window > >>> manager for MacOS to control this behavior. Am I right? > Anyone has > >>> any idea on what that option is and how to change it? I'm > going > >>> mad with this problem. > >> > >> It is an effect of using LaunchServices, rather than vanilla > fork/ > >> exec or posix_spawn to start the process. > >> > >> If you want this behaviour, use LaunchServices (which is what > the > >> command line tool "open" does). This will have the side > effect of > >> running the correct slice of the application, for example if > you > >> checked the "Run under Rosetta" checkbox in finder for Safari > to > >> ensure you will be able to continue to use your PPC plugins > on an > >> Intel machine. > >> > >> -- Terry > >> > > > >
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