Re: Launch another app without losing focus
Re: Launch another app without losing focus
- Subject: Re: Launch another app without losing focus
- From: Greg Herlihy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:38:44 -0700
- Thread-topic: Launch another app without losing focus
Launching a faceless app should not deactivate the current app, because a
faceless app has no UI to activate. So I would verify that the LSUIElement
key is properly set to "1" in the info.plist of the helper app.
Greg
On 6/12/06 11:13 PM, "Mike Kobb" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on a little project that is a System Preferences pane
> which controls a server.
>
> One of the things the pane may do is to launch a faceless background
> "helper" application. I'm doing this like so:
>
> [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchApplication:helperPath];
>
> helperPath is the path to my helper app.
>
> This works great, but when I do this, the System Preferences main
> window becomes inactive, and I have to click the window to have it
> become active again.
>
> Is there a different way to launch an app like this so that I don't
> lose activation?
>
> Thanks!
> --Mike
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