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Preference Pane loses focus when loading

I made a preference pane and every time it loads the System Preferences loses focus. If I remove all controls from my pref pane window the issue will not occur but as soon as there's any sort of image or control in the window it occurs.

What am I missing?

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Nevermind. The pref pane is launching another app so that's why it's losing focus...

Luc  2010-10-07 17:48:22
What method are you using to launch the app? There's probably a way to launch the app in the background, so System Preferences does not lose focus.
mipadi  2010-10-07 20:54:38
There is. Both NSWorkspace and Launch Services support launching in the background.
Peter Hosey  2010-10-08 04:40:08
Figured it out: just use NSWorkspaceLaunchWithoutActivation with openURLs.
Luc  2010-10-16 16:39:29

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