Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSAppEnableForeground

[Jack J. <Jac...@or...>]

On donderdag, feb 13, 2003, at 21:28 Europe/Amsterdam, Ronald Oussoren  
wrote:

>
> 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.

It's the tcl-mac list at sourceforge. Look at Jim's postings of  
13-Nov-2002:
https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/ 
forum.php?forum_id=3853&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200211&viewday= 
12

In reality it's a bit different than I remembered it, though:
- the responsible people didn't specifically want to change it, they  
wanted to be able to decide whether to open it up later.
- The good news is that they seem to think that this whole business of  
having to run in a .app bundle may really be a bug...
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