(With my apologies for that case of verbing in the subject :-)
I'm writing an alarm clock. When the alarm goes off it would be nice
if the app became foremost, so that the user could hit the Any Key to
snooze the alarm.
So how do I tell an app that's not foremost, or maybe even hidden to
For Macintosh using you store the name of your app in the variable
theNameOfMyApp:
Do tell application quote theNameOfMyApp quote to activate as
applescript
I don't think they will be a common solution to all platforms, but I could
be wrong. I have a revolution program that keeps my
The problem here is that Applescript's activate command only works
on scriptable apps. A Rev standalone doesn't have a scripting
dictionary, and isn't directly Applescriptable. However, if you're
using a Mac, something like this should work:
tell app Finder
set the frontmost of application
