I don't think any OS allows an app to insert itself into the user's work
flow like that. Even your own solution requires you to specify it via a hot
key.
Usually we use the native version of interapp communication, which on Mac
is applesccript and on Windows VB. Or you could see if there's an
equivalent shell command, there probably is. You can run shell commands
from LC.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On May 13, 2018 9:29:01 AM Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Since I do not create the stack as a "modal stack" (a command I didn't even
know existed... again, thanks for THAT), then does that make my card (only
one in the app) a "system" window? After read the doc's on "modal stack",
I doubt that I want my stack to become "modal"... even temporarily.
What I seek is that window that "remains on top" *is* the LC card's window
(I only have one card in this app)... but this statement is qualified as
explained below.
When I "leave" the LC window to perform an action on another window (e.g.
Notepad), the Notepad window become the active window. What I want (and
achieve using AutoHotKey) is, after placing a section of text from another
window (Notepad, Outlook, Excel, etc.)into the clipboard (via ^C, double
click, etc.), my LC card's window becomes the top-most, active window
AUTOMATICALLY. Of course I could MANUALLY "dig it out" from behind any
overlaying windows but I'm much too lazy to do THAT.
LC happily (and impressively) "sees" the "new" clipboard data in a "timing
loop", and inserts it into my LC processing. What I am seeking, in an LC
native procedure, is for the LC card's window to become the top-most
window. I DO NOT want to make my LC window the top-most ALL THE TIME, as
the " set the systemwindow of stack "stackname" to true" does... just
re-emerge as the top-most window when I want it to.
Douglas Ruisaard
Trilogy Software
(250) 573-3935
Is the window that remains on top a modal or system window?
Bob S
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