I spent a couple hours last night re-disovering Apple Bug ID #5905139 which was supposedly opened three years ago by Mike Ash [1]. Mike said:
"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." He also said that he was doing the switch when the app launched. Actually, that works OK for me, so maybe that bug has been fixed as of 10.6.7. However, I have a more challenging requirement. My app launches as LSUIBackgroundOnly and can show a Status Item (aka menulet). My Status Item includes a "Show Menu" menu item. This item targets TransformProcessType(). So you see the transformation may occur hours after launch. It is only after this delayed transform that I see the problem; the user needs to activate 1-2 other apps and return to mine before my menu shows. As Mike found, it's worse if the app was spawned by Xcode/gdb. So I tried all kinds of things last night: -activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES of course, iterating through all of the -[NSApp windows] and sending them each of them a -display, -makeKeyAndOrderFront:YES. Nada. I machine-gunned them with loops and delays, and finally broke out NSAppleScript and tried alternately activating my app and the currently active application. Still no good. Since users will do this rarely or more likely never, I wouldn't mind programatically cycling through their frontmost, 2nd-frontmost and 3rd-frontmost apps if I knew what they were so I could restore them to their prior order. But even the shiny new -[NSWorkspace runningApplications] documentation says that "the order of the array is unspecified". (Arghh! Why?) System Events gives no more than the one active application either. But that may not work anyhow. Can anyone think of any other bricks I could try throwing at this? Thanks, Jerry Krinock [1] http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/205558-transformprocesstype-fails-to-show-menu-bar.html?q=TransformProcessType#205558_______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
