Re: GWorkspace openFile & ImageViewer

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 03:37  pm, Enrico Sersale wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
>
> > Enrico Sersale wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > 2)Gorm
> > > Gorm implements application:openFile: and the method is correctly 
> > > called
> > > for the first file when the app is also launched and for the second 
> > > one,
> > > too. But, in this case (the second file) no window appears.
> >
> > This might be due to issues with window ordering in NSWindow. I've 
> > been
> > looking at this a bit for a while. Try commenting out the line ~1356 
> > in
> > NSWindow.m? (the "if ([NSApp isActive])" in -orderFront:)
>
> Yes, with line ~1356 commented out all the window are shown.

Well, I don't think the windows should be shown if the app is not 
active ... so I think this is a bug in the handling of 
application:openFile: by the gui (combined with focus problems in the 
backend making the app inactive when it should be active) ... it should 
make the app active before opening the file rather than assuming that 
the delegates :openFile: method is going to do it.

I've updated the code to do this.  I've also fixed file opening in 
NSDocumentController based applications (so my hack to Ink.app is not 
needed) and made the application delete files opened with 
application:openTempFile:
The resulting code seems to work nicely to open files when the app 
responsible is not active.