Yes, this is an every increasingly annoying bug. I filed a similar issue (#9402554) and based on the duplicate bug # referenced, it appears it has been around a while.
I've tried most of the solutions offered by developers before (from AppleScripts to setting focus on the dock) and none have worked for me. I then took a very inelegant approach to this: Launch a new instance of same app (you could add a special arg to indicate launch as foreground app). Then quit the old agent. In applicationWillFinishLaunching: if your arg is there, call TransformProcessType(). It seems that applicationWillFinishLaunching: is early enough in the launch that the menubar will update properly when you transform the process type. If you needed to keep data, you could put it up on a private NSPasteboard and grab it again. This has been the most reliable way of converting an agent to a foreground app that I've found. But, IMHO, it is also the ugliest approach. I really hope Apple just fixes this issue once and for all. Mark On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote: > Thank you, Jim. Unfortunately your workaround doesn't work in my app either. > > I presume it will work in a simple app. I'm tired of poking, so I'll have to > do the usual drill of rebuilding a replica of my app from a simple app piece > by piece and see where it breaks :( > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/unmarked%40gmail.com > > This email sent to unmar...@gmail.com > -- Mark Munz unmarked software http://www.unmarked.com/ _______________________________________________ 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