Re: [Fwd: Bring Unix Process Window to Front]
Re: [Fwd: Bring Unix Process Window to Front]
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bring Unix Process Window to Front]
- From: Craig Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:49:31 -0700
On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Mark wrote: How can I bring the GnuCash window to the front upon launch? "Tell application "gnucash-bin" to activate" doesn't seem to work. I don't even know how to simulate pressing cmd-shift-tab, which I would live with. TIA for helping a rank beginner.
See if this works.
-- Get the pid using $! -- Then bring it to the front like this. tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of (every process whose unix id is pid_number) to true
-Craig
I'm embarrassed to say I don't know the syntax for getting the pid using $!. Hint?
- Mark
Sorry about that.
The $! captures the PID of the last process executed in that specific shell.
In a Terminal window you can do this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
/path/to/executable/ &> /dev/null & PID=$! echo $PID
From AppleScript
There is an actual return after '&> /dev/null &' that way we are executing two commands one after the other.
set theCommand to "/path/to/executable/ &> /dev/null & echo $!" set thePID to do shell script theCommand
hth,
Craig |
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