Opening a document and getting the window to front?

"matt neuburg" <matt DeleteThis @tidbits.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to open a folder in the Finder. I use AESend( ) with an event
>> of
>> type kAEOpenDocument.
>> It opens correctly the folder... but the window appears behind my own
>> application. I tried to pass AEAlwaysInteract|kAECanSwitchLayer in the
>> AESendMode parameter but it does not seem to do anything.
>>
>> any idea what i should do?
>
> You could tell the Finder to activate...?
>
> If *all* you want to do is open a folder and bring it to the front,
> though, sending an Apple event seems like a royal waste of brain power.
> m.
if you can give me something simpler, i'd be perfectly happy!
a snippet would of great help

Armel

"matt neuburg" <matt.RemoveThis@tidbits.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to open a folder in the Finder. I use AESend( ) with an event
>> of
>> type kAEOpenDocument.
>> It opens correctly the folder... but the window appears behind my own
>> application. I tried to pass AEAlwaysInteract|kAECanSwitchLayer in the
>> AESendMode parameter but it does not seem to do anything.
>>
>> any idea what i should do?
>
> You could tell the Finder to activate...?
>
> If *all* you want to do is open a folder and bring it to the front,
> though, sending an Apple event seems like a royal waste of brain power.
OK found LSOpenFSRef which seems to do what I wanted

Armel

"Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:

> OK found LSOpenFSRef which seems to do what I wanted

But what programming world are you operating in, where you have an
FSRef? I mean, it's like I'm talking to you down some kind of
20-year-old time machine. Here in the modern world I'd expect you to
have a pathname or file URL. NSWorkspace will just open that for you. m.

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In article <1j0duny.2y6pq4e14nosN%matt@tidbits.com>,
matt RemoveThis @tidbits.com (matt neuburg) wrote:

> "Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > OK found LSOpenFSRef which seems to do what I wanted
>
> But what programming world are you operating in, where you have an
> FSRef? I mean, it's like I'm talking to you down some kind of
> 20-year-old time machine. Here in the modern world I'd expect you to
> have a pathname or file URL. NSWorkspace will just open that for you. m.

Seems a bit of hyperbole, doesn't it? Leaving aside the fact that FSRefs
aren't 20 years old, there remain a fair number of situations where
Carbon is the better (or even only) way to get something done. The OP
never actually indicated he was writing an app, for example.

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"matt neuburg" <matt DeleteThis @tidbits.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK found LSOpenFSRef which seems to do what I wanted
>
> But what programming world are you operating in, where you have an
> FSRef? I mean, it's like I'm talking to you down some kind of
> 20-year-old time machine. Here in the modern world I'd expect you to
> have a pathname or file URL. NSWorkspace will just open that for you. m.
it seems Cocoa stuff isn't it? I have to stick to C++.. and i'm a total
newbie so calling a C API seems really much more simple to me than going
into Objective C stuff.
and yes I have URLs in input, but i'm sure in that case that they point into
the file system.

Regards
Armel

"Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:

> and yes I have URLs in input

The I think you can call LSOpenCFURLRef, no? m.

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"matt neuburg" <matt DeleteThis @tidbits.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Armel" <armelasselin (@) hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and yes I have URLs in input
>
> Then I think you can call LSOpenCFURLRef, no? m.
yes indeed

Armel