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Re: Second frontmost app?
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Re: Second frontmost app?


  • Subject: Re: Second frontmost app?
  • From: "Gary L. Wade" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:06:51 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Second frontmost app?

You're starting off with GetCurrentProcess, which returns the process number
of your application; have you tried GetFrontProcess, which returns the front
process?  This will not be your application if you're in the background.

On 04/28/2009 9:57 AM, "Jean-Daniel Dupas" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Don't bother with that. I did a try, and it look like the Process
> Manager order has nothing to do with the cmd + tab order.
> it returns -600, probably because psn is the last process in the
> Process Manager list.
> Sorry for the noise.
>
>
> Le 28 avr. 09 à 17:55, Dave DeLong a écrit :
>
>> Well, I got this working with a timer that just keeps track of the
>> activeApplication and the previously activeApplication, but I'm
>> intrigued by this approach, so I'd like to see if this works, too.
>>
>> Here's what I've got:
>>
>> ProcessSerialNumber psn;
>> OSErr result = GetCurrentProcess(&psn);
>> if (result != 0) {
>> NSLog(@"Error for current process: %d", result);
>> return;
>> }
>> result = GetNextProcess(&psn);
>> if (result != 0) {
>> NSLog(@"Error for next process: %d", result);
>> return;
>> }
>>
>> However, when I run that, I always get:
>>
>> Error for next process: -600  (-600 = No eligible process with
>> specified process serial number.)
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2009, at 1:44 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>>
>>> You can use the ProcessManager API.
>>> AFAK, the GetNextProcess() will returns the processes in the order
>>> you see them in the cmd+tab panel.


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