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Re: Launch another app without losing focus
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Re: Launch another app without losing focus


  • Subject: Re: Launch another app without losing focus
  • From: Ryan Britton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:58:30 -0700

Is there any reason you can't use the launch option NSWorkspaceLaunchWithoutActivation?

Combine it with this: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/ Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSWorkspace_Class/Reference/ Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSWorkspace/ launchAppWithBundleIdentifier:options:additionalEventParamDescriptor:lau nchIdentifier:


On Jun 12, 2006, at 11:13 PM, Mike Kobb 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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