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Re: Making an application "active" from java

I used to use:

		ProcessSerialNumberStruct psnStruct = new ProcessSerialNumberStruct();
		ProcessFunctions.GetCurrentProcess(psnStruct);
		ProcessFunctions.SetFrontProcess(psnStruct);

but now I use:

String [] args = { "osascript",
"-e",
"tell application \"Finder\" to set frontmost of application process \"MyApp\" to true"};
try{
Runtime.getRuntime().exec (args );
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}

Both are OS X only - and we're still with Java1.3.1 - but effective!

mwaller

On Monday, December 13, 2004, at 10:45 pm, email@hidden wrote:

Yes, I think a Mac OS X solution is what I need for now (though it
would be nice if the Java SDK had something like this).

I see that somewhere there's a class called
"com.apple.cocoa.application.NSApplication", which has a method
"activateIgnoringOtherApps", which sounds like exactly what I want.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ ApplicationKit/Java/Classes/NSApplication.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/ 20000624/CACCJDJC

But I can't find a jar file on my system that includes this class.  Is
this old documentation?  Is this class obsolete?

Bill

Bill Janssen wrote:
| Is there some way,
| from Java, to make my application the "active" application?

If your application will run only on OS X, you could exec() the "open" command. (That would require your application knowing it's own name and location, however.)

Mary Waller
MPC Data Ltd
+44 (0) 1225 861311

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