Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSAppEnableForeground

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

I'm pretty sure that's why there is the GetProcess / GetFrontProcess /  
SameProcess code in libForeground.a.  It *only* gets called when it's  
absolutely necessary.

On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 08:32 America/New_York, Jack Jansen wrote:

> I suggest everyone is *very* careful using  
> CPSEnableForegroundOperation. It comes up time and again, and most  
> recently there was a discussion on the Mac-Tk mailing list about it.  
> Jim, the MacTk lead engineer, happens to work at Apple, and he asked  
> the people responsible for CPSEnableForegroundOperation to make it an  
> official API, but they were unwilling to do so, specifically because  
> they want the freedom to change it at will. So you shuldn't be  
> surpirsed if you use this in an application and then see the  
> application breaking at the next minor MacOSX release:-(
>
> On donderdag, feb 13, 2003, at 10:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Ippolito  
> wrote:
>> Just to cover bases, CPSEnableForeground is exported by  
>> CoreGraphics.framework, which is part of ApplicationServices (and  
>> used by AppKit, which you can prove for yourself).
>> % nm  
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ 
>> Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics | grep  
>> CPSEnableForeground
>> 938a54b8 T _CPSEnableForegroundOperation
>>
>> I will do so once I find the time (likely Saturday or Sunday).. but  
>> you should note that the "number of other projects" that use  
>> CPSEnableForegroundOperation are __all__ straight up copied from my  
>> reverse engineering of the jar runtime, which I did somewhere between  
>> dec 2001 and jan 2002... The first project that actually used the  
>> code was pygame, as that was what I was working on at the time.   You  
>> can tell that it's all derived from my original work by the fact that  
>> they all use the same code:
>> CPSEnableForegroundOperation(&PSN,0x03,0x3C,0x2C,0x1103);
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