Re: GWorkspace openFile & ImageViewer

[Jeff Teunissen]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:57  pm, Enrico Sersale wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> >
> >> Marko Riedel wrote:
> >>
> >>> thanks for those pointers but I have already done exactly what you
> >>> suggest:
> >>>
> >>> (a) implement -application:openFile:
> >>> (b) modify GPSTextInfo.plist
> 
> As a workaround for a gui bug, it looks like you also need to call
> [NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps: YES];
> in your -application:openFile: implementation to cope with it being
> called when your app is inactive.
> 
> The current CVS code fixes that, but you might want to do the
> workaround so your code will operate correctly with the last
> gui release.

On OPENSTEP, -application:openFile: does not do anything to the app -- it
is not activated.

NSWindow -orderFront: checks whether the app is hidden (and if so, sends
-unhideWithoutActivation), brings the window to the front of its level,
and makes it visible -- in that order. This also means that it is a valid
behavior for windows to be created and ordered front by inactive apps,
meaning that the [NSApp isActive] check in -orderFront: is bogus.
-orderFrontRegardless should rarely be used, as it can place windows in
front of those owned by the active app. It's mostly used when one app is
using another to display something.

NSWindow -orderWindow:NSOrderAbove relativeTo: 0 does the same thing,
unhiding the app if it is hidden -- but again, not activating the app.

To make things interesting, opening a file from the Workspace activates
the app...but opening a file from the command-line does not. :)

This tells me that Workspace does something explicitly to activate apps
that "open" does not.

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