[stupidFish23]

Hi!

Is there an action method I could use to have my cocoa app perform whenever the user activates the app by clicking on its icon in the dock, if the app had been in the background before ?

[Apocalypse]

If you delegate NSApp to one of your controller objects you could override the method:
- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive NSNotification *)aNotification

From there you could check to see if any of the windows just received a mouse event (note that this would be trivial but tedious) and, if not, you can be pretty sure that they clicked on the dock icon.

I haven't tried it but it sounds logical.


edit:
After another look at the docs I found this method which might be better:
- (BOOL)applicationShouldHandleReopen NSApplication *)theApplication hasVisibleWindows BOOL)flag

This one is called whenever an already open program is double-clicked or whenever someone activates it with the dock. This might work better
/edit

Hope that helps,
Jeff.

[ 04-19-2002: Message edited by: Apocalypse ]

[stupidFish23]

thanks, Apocalypse, i'll try it out and tell you how it went.

PS: where did you get your nickname from?

[stupidFish23]

hmm.. i got stuck... i just can't get it to work... i just can't figure out how to use it. anyone help, please..