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Re: activate vs. frontmost
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Re: activate vs. frontmost


  • Subject: Re: activate vs. frontmost
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 05:13:23 -0400


On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Steve Mills <email@hidden> wrote:

On Jun 27, 2016, at 20:42:28, Mitchell L Model <email@hidden> wrote:

Given a running application AppName, what are the practical differences, if any, between
activate application “AppName”
and
set frontmost of application “AppName” to true
?

Nothing that I know of, except the former has been broken in recent versions of OS X.


What is broken about 'activate application "AppName"'? It has always worked for me, and it still does.

-- 

Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden

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