Objective-c – How to programmatically make cocoa application active

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I've got a background process that makes a transparent window appear when a hotkey is pressed:

[window makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil];
[[content animator] setAlphaValue:1.0]; // alpha was 0.0

… the window shows up fine & in front of the other windows (as I want it to), however until I manually click the window whatever application was active when the window appears remains active. I was expecting the 'makeKeyAndOrderFront' to make the application active as well, however adding a NSLog line to my -applicationWillBecomeActive shows it's not getting any active notification until the mouse click is performed.

Does anyone know how I can set my application active @ the same time I issue the -makeKeyAndOrderFront ? I need it active so that it can begin accepting keyboard input – any assistance needed 🙂

Best Answer

Look at [[NSApplication sharedApplication] activateIgnoringOtherApps : YES];.

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