Re: How to get frontmost application?
Re: How to get frontmost application?
- Subject: Re: How to get frontmost application?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:42:12 -0800
On 2/8/02 10:12 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 2/8/02 10:31 AM, Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> But wouldn't the script's applet become the frontmost application when
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>> it's launched? Therefore, it would not know what was frontmost just
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>> before it was launched. Even worse, launching it would probably make the
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>> Finder the frontmost app just before it was launched.
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> -- not if it's running from another application's internal script menu.
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I got the impression he was talking about an applet, not a compiled
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script. Maybe I'm wrong about that.
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Even so, if it's a stay-open applet with an idle handler running in the
background, it would work. Otherwise, no dice, as you say.
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Paul Berkowitz
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