Well, you didn't mention the media player or the exact command you are
using to open it. If you use the "activate" method on a application object
then the application should be placed in the foreground. So, for example if
you are using JavaScript for OSA commands it might look like:
app = application("iTunes")
app..activate())
Using the "open" command in terminal it is possible to force the new
application to not be the foreground application but there is no mention of
forcing it to be in the foreground.
Also, just to be complete the AppleScript version of the commands listed
above would be:
tell application "iTunes" to activate
In terms of your second question, I have not seen this behavior did you
attempt to redirect voiceover output to a different sound device then the
standard sound?
Sounds like a bug to me.
Best Wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
On 20 October 2016 at 13:08, - <dandun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> There are two things buggingg me which perhaps someone has the solution.
>
> First how does one make sure then when an app is started it is not done in
> the background?
>
> When I start a media player app from within terminal and sometimes and
> sometimes not the player starts in the background.
>
> I have to do a command+tab to get to it to exit if in the background. Then
> I need to choose terminal to make it in the foreground.
>
> Sometimes when it is in the foreground, I exit the player and it takes me
> back to finder in the application choice list, as though command+tab was
> entered. I have to choose terminal once again to make it in the foreground.
>
> However usually when opening in the forground from terminal the player can
> be exited as usual and terminal is there now as the foreground application
> just like before the player was started.
>
> Second is a headphone question. I have a wired usb headphone.
>
> When using it letters entered by the keyboard are spoken from the
> computer speaker and punctuation is spoken in the headphones. All speech
> is otherwise in the headphones only.
>
> Has anyone a solution for either of these please?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> XB
>
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