Thanks, Mary. What I like about this solution is that it doesn't
introduce any extra mouse-click or ReOpenApplication events. If only
I knew the name of the Mac app in my Java code... Suppose I could
hard-code it.
Bill
> 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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