Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSAppEnableForeground

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 14:32 Europe/Amsterdam, 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:-(

Is that list archived anywhere? Considering this information I'm 
starting to worry even more about the possible long term effects of 
adding this.

I understand this is usefull for some people, but I don't want to add 
this to the core. I am willing to introduce a seperate module (Say 
'objc.hacks') that contains just NSAppEnableForeground, that way we're 
sure that sudden changes to this API won't hurt the users that don't 
care about this function (e.g. what if Apple suddenly decides to remove 
this function, if we're not carefull the bridge might break even if you 
don't call NSAppEnableForeground). However, I don't really care about 
this functionality and will probably remove it as soon as it is causing 
problems.

Ronald