Perfect (well, perfect barring extended testing). So far this seems to do the trick:
[[NSApplication sharedApplication] activateIgnoringOtherApps : YES]; Thanks for the suggestion. If it breaks something else I'll be sure you let you know. On 14 Apr 2013, at 17:47, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> wrote: > I think the problem may be your UIElement-ness. It's been ages since I worked > on a UIElement app, and when I did it had to pop something up on the screen > atop of everything, so I just put my window in the floating window layer (or > was it called Utility window level? Well, one of the CGWindowLevel constants > that you can pass to NSWindow's setLevel:). > > I'm not sure if there is a way to bring windows with a document window level > to front, but what I'd try is activating your application. I think > NSApplication has a method to bring it to front, or make it active, or > whatever the terminology was. Makes it the front process and swaps in its > menu bar (which of course won't happen for your UIElement). Well, I'd try > that, it may or may not work. > > Hope these clues help you in figuring it out. > > Cheers, > -- Uli Kusterer > "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." > http://www.zathras.de > > > On 14.04.2013, at 18:33, Pax <45rpmli...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I want my window to come to the front when I select it. My window (with its >> own class to handle it), sadly, has other ideas - and stays resolutely in >> the background. Complicating matters, my app is faceless - just a menu item >> to show for itself, and no icon in the dock. The code I'm having problems >> with is as follows: >> >> -(void) configureWindow:(id)owner >> { >> [self showWindow:owner]; >> [infoWindow cascadeTopLeftFromPoint:NSMakePoint(20,20)]; >> [infoWindow makeKeyAndOrderFront:owner]; >> } >> >> configureWindow is called as follows (from AppDelegate.m): >> [[device objectForKey:@"InformationWindowRef"] configureWindow:self]; >> >> And the info.plist for the app contains: >> Application is agent (UIElement) YES >> >> Given enough time, I may well crack this - but if anyone has a clever idea >> for where I've gone wrong then I'd love to hear it. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/witness.of.teachtext%40gmx.net >> >> This email sent to witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net > _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
