osx wish foreground issue

#11 08-26-2008, 04:55 PM

On Aug 25, 3:31 pm, Jeff Hobbs <jeff.ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 12:18 pm, blomc...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > But I have to say, all of this is quite an effort to go to to simply
> > get a tcl application to appear in the foreground when launched, which
> > is expected behavior for any app on any platform that is not
> > specifically launched as a background process. I don't understand why
> > tcl/tk apps on the mac don't do this automatically. I suppose this is
> > an issue with the aqua/tk system, so perhaps I'll ask around there.
>
> What you think is not what is true. This is an intentional behavior
> on OS X by the OS itself and effects more than Tcl/Tk. Read up on why
> in the archives here or the tcl-mac mailing list.
>
> Jeff

Thanks for all responses. Yes, I realized yesterday that I was
mistaken about apps foregrounding by default; I am fairly new to the
mac, and typically launch stuff using the "open" command (eg open -a
xcode somefile), which does cause the app to go to foreground.

So now where I used to have the main tcl script that was callable on
win32/osx/linux as "myapp.tcl" from anywhere (assuming location in
path) I now have a "myapp.osx" which is a one-line script that says
"open -a myapp" where myapp.app is the new application bundle.

thanks all -thomas blom

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