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

[Steven <ste...@ya...>]

> > 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.

> 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.

Steven