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 FileMaker server in the foreground 24/7, well apart from certain hours where it quits it for backup and launches it again, I do the same thing with Firstclass servers. -i- On 1/4/02 6:56 pm, "Victor Eijkhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed: > (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 > become foremost? > -- > Victor Eijkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) > http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/ > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
