Need a handler for when ASS app becomes frontmost

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#1

Hi,
I have an AppleScript Studio app I am working on. I would like to perform an action when the application becomes the active app. Forgive me for my lack of knowledge, but what handler can I use to perform an action when the application becomes the frontmost one? Thanks.

#2

In IB attach the “activated” handler under the “Application” section of the AppleScript tab of the “Get Info” palette to the File’s Owner (the application). Then, in your script, add this code:

on activated the_object
    --do something
end activated

Jon

#3

Thanks jonn8, but I am at a bit of a quandry here, and maybe this isn’t even possible, but the situation I have is that I want the activated handler to do two things. Bring a separate app to the front and then bring my AppleScript Studio app to the front. This way if a user goes off and does something else in another program, simply clicking on the AppleScript Studio app’s window brings things back to normal app layering, etc. Of course, when I bring the AppleScript Studio app to the front (with an activate me command), I am initiating the on activated handler again, resulting in an endless loop.

#4

Try this (substituting the name of the secondary app for “Safari”, of course):

on activated the_object
	set my_name to name of me
	tell application "System Events"
		set frontmost of process "Safari" to true
		set frontmost of process my_name to true
	end tell
end activated

Jon