Re: Setting Frontmost to False
Re: Setting Frontmost to False
- Subject: Re: Setting Frontmost to False
- From: Jeffrey Berman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 02:02:19 -0500
On 8/7/02 1:30 AM, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
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If I understand the concepts involved correctly, you can't
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force an application not to be front most simply by setting
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the value to false. Instead, you must tell the process
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manager (or the finder in OS 7 - 9) to set some other
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process/application to the front, thus forcing the process
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you want not be the front one into being somewhere other
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than the front.
For scripts I've been working on, I do not want to specify the process to be
frontmost, just that the current foreground process be visible but not in
the foreground. One possibility that would be acceptable is if there were a
way to set as frontmost whatever process is just behind a particular
process.
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In part two, you talk about processes being visible; the system
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can easily make a process invisible, but that doesn't make it
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something other than the front process.
It does, at least on my machine running AppleScript 1.8.3. If I toggle the
visible of the frontmost process (set visible to false, then set it to
true), the process is no longer frontmost. My question is whether there is
a more straightforward way to have a particular process not be the
foreground process (without specifying the process that would then be in the
foreground).
-Jeffrey Berman
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