Re: [MACTCL] OSX program focus/raise on startup.

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

On 2011-04-10, at 2:54 AM, Steven wrote:
>>> On 2011-04-09, at 8:04 PM, Steven wrote:
>>> I don't suppose anyone knows a  hack to raise the Wish application when it starts 
>>> from the command line  ?
>>> On my OSX-10.5/wish-8.5.8/G4 system, all wish apps start up underneath  the 
>>> Terminal or Finder.
>>> 
>>> Once or twice they do make it  to the top and get focus automatically.. but I 
>>> don't know why, and it's  not reproducible.
>> 
>> It's "by design" that launched shell apps don't get  front process status. 
> 
> This differs from all other OS's i've used Wish on, and seems a little funny.
> Generally you want newly created toplevels to have focus.

I should be clear that this is a Mac OS X design, not Wish.

Jeff

>> Someone provided a reference before, but I'll just  note that a "work-around" 
>> to have your process be front is to use the  tclCarbonProcesses extensions (in 
>> the teapot if you use ActiveTcl), and then  'carbon::setFrontProcess 
>> [carbon::getCurrentProcess]'.  You can also set  the process name with 
>> carbon::setProcessName, which may be useful for the case  that David Zolli hit.
> 
> Cheers... Though i don't have  tclCarbonProcesses on my box currently.