Re: How does 'Finder' open an application and bring the window to the front?
site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 20-Dec-07, at 03:03 , Calvin Liu wrote: Hi, Terry, Thanks for the feedback. /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -ProfileManager There may be a way of using Applescript. Andre _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Actually I'm working on a Firefox addon which provide user the feature to switch among existing profiles. So I can use a Firefox method to start another independent Firefox process. But the new Firefox is always behind the previous one. I got the idea to use "open" from mozilla community, so I did some trick like this: 1. write a shell script to start Firefox in a new process 2. create a fake.app folder which contains necessary folder structure/files to make it looks like an application to "open" 3. write another shell script to "open" this fake.app 4. call the 2nd script from my addon. It works but seems not to be a "beautiful" solution. So I'm wondering if there's any other way to solve it. If you have any idea about that, could you please let me know? Thanks a lot! Firefox already had the ability to switch between profiles, though on the Mac you will have to go through the command line: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com
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