How can I foreground an app?

[Ian Summerfield]

For Macintosh using you store the name of your app in the variable
"theNameOfMyApp":

Do "tell application " & quote & theNameOfMyApp & quote & " to activate" as
applescript

I don't think they will be a common solution to all platforms, but I could
be wrong.   I have a revolution program that keeps my FileMaker server in
the foreground 24/7,  well apart from certain hours where it quits it for
backup and launches it again,  I do the same thing with Firstclass servers.

-i-

On 1/4/02 6:56 pm, "Victor Eijkhout" <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> scribed:

> (With my apologies for that case of verbing in the subject :-)
> 
> I'm writing an alarm clock. When the alarm goes off it would be nice
> if the app became foremost, so that the user could hit the Any Key to
> snooze the alarm.
> 
> So how do I tell an app that's not foremost, or maybe even hidden to
> become foremost?
> -- 
> Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu>
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