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From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: bringing my application to the foreground
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Date: 12 Jul 89 23:53:12 GMT
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In article <5971@hubcap.clemson.edu> mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke) writes:
>If my program is suspended in the background under multifinder, what is
>the proper way to bring it to the foreground.  If i receive an appletalk
>packet while in the background, my application needs to become the 
>foreground application.
Do you have to become foreground or just notify the user?  If notification
is all you need, use the notification manager (there's a tech note, 184, I 
think).  I also recall reading in some Apple doc about the "standard" way
of bringing yourself to the front.  It said that the easiest way to do this
is to Launch() yourself.  Note, though, that this is a pretty user-unfriendly
thing to do...

-Bill Hofmann