Making a Rev-built app hoist itself to the foreground

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com
Thu Dec 16 03:31:57 EST 2004


On Dec 15, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Geoff Canyon wrote:
>> Thanks, but I need something that will bring the whole Revolution app 
>> to the foreground when other applications are in front of it. "go 
>> this stack" brings that window to the front of the Rev app, but 
>> doesn't change the layer of the app itself.
>
> You can use the Activate AppleScript command on OS X; with Windows 
> having interleaved windows from the beginning there is no concept of 
> "bringing an application to the front", so you'd probably have to move 
> each window forward by itself.

Unfortunately, activate doesn't seem to work for apps called through 
the command line. In fact, clicking on their windows doesn't bring them 
to the front either. I asked on an OS X list if this were correctable, 
but haven't had a successful response yet.

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com



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