What method should be called to deactivate an app right after it's launch in applicationDidFinishLaunching: delegate method has been called? Or maybe there is a better place to do that? The documentation for deactivate method for NSApplication says that I shouldn't call this method directly since AppKit knows better how to deactivate stuff.
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It's not clear what you're trying to achieve.
You can use -hide: to deactivate your app. I also wouldn't hesitate using -deactivate if it actually does what you need. It's just that normal applications do not explicitly deactivate themselves; I think that's what the documentation is saying.
However, if you set LSUIElement in Info.plist your application should not become active when launched; it also won't have a menu bar or dock icon.
Darren
2009-11-15 21:36:19
App does become active after launch, since I added global event monitor and i get beeps each time i press the global key registered in global event monitor.Global event monitors don't route events to the app while it's being active. Right?
Eimantas
2009-11-16 10:38:59
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Maybe using -[NSApplication hide:] would work, or perhaps activate another app using -[NSRunningApplication activateWithOptions:] (10.6 only, tho). However, I don't foresee many problems with using deactivate:.
Dave DeLong
2009-11-15 21:40:48