I'm losing focus, momentarily, over and over again, and I'd like to figure out whether there's anything I can do about it.
I'm running a number of apps against the window server, like Cocoa Emacs and Camino. I run a background process that watches (via Applescript calls to System Events) what's going on, then, if I'm looking at a Web page or other document, grabs a copy of that document, and does some stuff with it. I've noticed this particularly in editors, like Emacs and TextEdit: when I switch to a new document, I lose focus for a second or two -- plenty long enough to mistype something. Then it comes right back to my app. A different app doesn't become "toplevel", though -- the menubar never changes. I'm guessing that some other app I'm running, probably in this background process (programs like GNU "enscript", and "ghostscript", but also like "sips", to create custom Finder icons), is stealing the focus. Or maybe System Events is doing it. How? Why? Is there any way I can prevent this from happening? I know that posting to this list is a bit of a mis-post, but this seems to be the closest to a "windowServer" list that Apple has, and I know you folks are familiar with these focus issues. Bill _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
