Re: Querying the front application

FROM : Alexander Powell
DATE : Sun Jul 09 10:13:38 2006

Excellent, that should do  ;-)

I was hoping for a Cocoa-riffic way to do those two things, but I 
suppose a few lines of Carbon code won't hurt...

Thanks for the speedy reply!

-- A-lex

On Jul 9, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Rosyna wrote:

> 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.