... I'd like to get a process to the front that I spawned myself --
it has no
application in the file system to 'open'.
That's quite a problem.
Can you describe the child process and how you spawn it? For example,
is
it a Java program, does it have a GUI, etc.? Does it have to work
across
multiple platforms or is it Mac OS X only?
It is another Java VM started through the standard Java Debug Interface
(JDI). In our application, we start this process fairly early (before
we actually want to run it, for reasons of responsiveness later), and
then later load classes into it and start it.
It may or may not have a GUI, but when it has a GUI then I'd like it to
come to the front when it kicks into action.
Cross-platform would be wonderful, but I am desperate enough to happily
work with platform-dependent solutions.
Also, how much can you change this child program?
I have full control and, most importantly, I can easily communicate
between the processes.
I ask because you might be able to send a Posix signal to the child,
and
its response could be to bring itself to front.
Okay, I can do this without Posix because I have established
communication, and the second process actually knows that it wants to
get to the front (in fact both the parent and child processes know) --
I just couldn't figure out a way to bring itself to the front. (The
obvious Window.toFront() and anything else I could find only make it
the front-most window of those windows _in the current VM_, not on the
OSD level.)
In short: I could happily put the code in either parent of child, if
only I could write the code.
Regards,
Michael
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