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mlRe: Querying the front application
FROM : Rosyna
DATE : Sun Jul 09 10:05:48 2006

Call GetFrontProcess() to get the front process and install a carbon
event handler for kEventClassApplication/kEventAppFrontSwitched.

Ack, at 7/9/06, Alexander Powell said:

>Is there a currently recommended way for a Cocoa app to register for
>a notification or something when the front-most application changes?
>
>After that's done, how could one query what application is now the front-most?
>
>I have a need to write a simple faceless utility that only does its
>thing when a particular application is in the foreground.


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