I wasn't sure if this should go to carbon-dev or cocoa-dev, but ultimately since this is a pretty low-level API and I suspect my problem interacts with Cocoa, I figured cocoa-dev would do.
I have an application which I would like to function in both "background" and "foreground" mode. Basically, when launched from login items (or when relaunching itself) it will be in background mode, presenting little UI and watching user actions to display helper windows when appropriate. When explicitly double-clicked from the Finder, it will pop up a Dock icon and a menu bar and such and act like a normal application so the user can set preferences and the like. I know that the "standard" way to do this is to have two apps. I'd really like to avoid this if I can. I've done it before, and it was less than fun. Seems like having a single app that switches modes ought to work, in any case. So, the actual problem: I set LSUIElement to 1 in my Info.plist and use TransformProcessType to bump to a foreground application. This works except that it fails to show my app's menu bar. Switching to another program and back to mine makes it show correctly. I've tried using LSBackgroundOnly, SetFrontProcess, [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES], and none of them change things. I even tried to manually perform the switch to another app, by doing GetFrontProcess beforehand, then setting it front and then my own. No dice. I finally stumbled upon a partial workaround. If I do TransformProcessType/SetFrontProcess in main() before the call to NSApplicationMain(), it works as expected. But only if I launch from Finder, not Xcode. The behavior when launched from Finder is just what I want so I'm somewhat happy, but the continuing broken behavior in Xcode makes me worry. Apparently I'm not the only one to hit this problem: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2007/11/14/193082 Alas, no solutions there. So, does anyone know what's going on, or a better workaround than the partial one I've managed to find? Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
