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1. Re: How can I bring other application to front, or put AIR app behind another application?
Joe ... Ward Oct 13, 2008 11:00 AM (in response to abeall)No. AIR can't control other applications and there is no way to send your AIR app go to the back of the desktop display stack. Possibly minimizing the AIR app might work, or resizing the AIR app down to a "toolbar." -
2. Re: How can I bring other application to front, or put AIR app behind another application?
abeall Oct 13, 2008 12:19 PM (in response to abeall)Thanks. Unfortunately my client is really unhappy about this. I'm trying to open a PPT, so I send it to the browser via navigateToURL, but the browser doesn't show up. I can minimize the application, but apparently their users don't know how to maximize! :( It's also not ideal because the application is running in a fullscreen presentation mode in front of a live audience, so minimizing is like going out of presenter mode. I don't seem to have any other options, though... if you have better ideas of how to handle this, let me know. -
3. Re: How can I bring other application to front, or put AIR app behind another application?
abeall Oct 17, 2008 10:35 PM (in response to abeall)"there is no way to send your AIR app go to the back of the desktop display stack"
Okay, I found NativeWindow.orderToBack(), and it seems to send the window to the back of the entire desktop display stack... seems to be what I want. Am I missing something?
I intentionally leave the window in fullscreen mode, which means when the user exits the browser/app that is now over top of it, they are back to their presentation in fullscreen mode. Now if only AIR could open those .pps files directly without the browser, and it would be perfect. -
4. Re: How can I bring other application to front, or put AIR app behind another application?
Joe ... Ward Oct 20, 2008 2:24 PM (in response to abeall)Technically, it is sending a window to the back, not your application, but that amounts to the same thing in this case. I wasn't aware that orderToBack() would reliably send a window behind the windows of other applications, but it seems to work that way on Mac, Windows, and Linux. -
5. Re: How can I bring other application to front, or put AIR app behind another application?
abeall Oct 20, 2008 2:37 PM (in response to abeall)Ah, I see the distinction. Okay, well it should work in my case, since it's a single window app.