Bringing AIR app to front

Hi,
I'm looking for a solution to bring my "Flex coded" AIR app
automatically to front when a certain event occurs.
In my case this is a LocalConnection event that I'm listening
to. I read through the LiveDocs
and came to the NativeApplication class an its "activate()"
method but I don't know how to
glue things together that it works as expected...
Hope someone can help!
Thanks,
Michl

Hi!
I did the same thing with localconnection. I have an
'activate' method which I invoke through the localconnection. My
class constructor get the NativeApplication object and stores it in
nativeApp. In the 'activate' method, I just do
nativeApp.activate ;
This seems to work. An issue that you may run into is that
there may not be an active window. I have code for minimize,
restore, maximize, etc. Here is a snippet to get the active window.
var nw:NativeWindow;
try
nativeApp.activate();
nw = nativeApp.activeWindow;
if ( nw == null ) {
if ( nativeApp.openedWindows.length > 0 ) {
nw = nativeApp.openedWindows[0] ;
nativeApp.activate( nw );
Complete the snippet with your 'else' and 'catch' logic. This
seems to work fine for me.

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