Detect app activation (focus) [SOLVED]

[sooshi]

Hi everybody.
I have a stack with an hidden card, that runs as a standalone. I am polling the keyboard to see if a key is pressed, then i rise up my card.
I want to do the same when the icon of the standalone is pressed (so if one clicks with mouse on dock or windows task bar).
In substance i need to detect when my app is activated in any way, but cannot find any message to capture.
Any hint?

[Klaus]

Hi sooshi,

maybe the "resumestack" message is what you are looking for?
That is sent to the foremost stack when the standalone app get focus again.


Best

Klaus

[Dixie]

read up on 'iconify'stack in the dictionary...

[sooshi]

Thank everybody.
None of this seems to work
Now i have:

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on resumeStack
   answer "Resume"

end resumeStack

on iconifyStack -- hide auxiliary window when the stack is iconified
  
  answer "iconify"
end iconifyStack

on uniconifyStack -- hide auxiliary window when the stack is iconified
  
  answer "uniconiify"
end uniconifyStack

but when i click on the icon on the dock, none of these 'answers' ...

[Dixie]

The handler is in the stack script... this works for me on MacOSX El Capitain.. LC 7.1.3

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on uniconifyStack
   beep
end uniconifyStack

[sooshi]

I'm on macosx El Capitain also, and with LC 7.1.3

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on uniconifyStack
   beep
end uniconifyStack

does not work.
Maybe because my standalone has no visible stacks, so there is nothing to 'uniconify' ...

[sooshi]

Here is my code (stripped down version).
Basically i have a splash screen, then i want my app substack to pop up when user press a key combo (here shift + ctrl). And this works (on mac).
But i also would like to open app substack when user clicks on the icon of the standalone in the doc.

[sooshi]

A little progress.
Now i don't hide the stack, but move it to -500 (out of video viewport). Now i can correctly get the event resume, but if app still has the focus, i cannot get click on dock icon, so i cannot redisplay the app window.
Any hint? Is it possible to capture the click on the icon of a standalone (with or without the app in focus)?

[[-hh]]

Clicking on a dock icon of an *app* is a *system event*, which the app has to pass to the card/stack.
The following works in the IDE, should also work in a standalone. Just try.

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-- put into first card's script or stack's script
on appleEvent iClass,iID,iBlah
  put the internet date && the params into fld 1 --> for debugging
  if iID is "rapp" then
    send "asYouLikeIt" to me in 2 ticks --> give some time for activation!!
  end if
  pass appleEvent
end appleEvent

on asYouLikeIt
  answer "I like It"
end asYouLikeIt

[sooshi]

Ty very much, this seems to solve my issue for now!