Xcode/AppleScript App - bring window to front

i have built an xcode/applescript wrapper application which executes a unix shell script. while the shell script is running (downloading + installing stuff, takes several minutes), the wrapper application is displaying an animated NSProgressIndicator (spinning circle). the idea behind this is that the user knows: as long as i see this progress indicator, the shell script is still busy. this all works fine.
however, as soon as a different application is covering the window of my wrapper application, i cannot bring my app's window to the front again by clicking on its dock icon or pressing cmd-tab. using exposé (mission control) it works fine. as soon as the shell script has finished, everything is back to normal.
it seems like the app is not responding to some events while waiting for the shell script to finish. what am i missing, any ideas?

Your application won't be able to respond to events if you are blocking the UI, such as running a long shell script or AppleScript without periodically giving the run loop a chance to do its thing. You might take a look at running the shell script in the background by using NSTask. Shane Stanley also has a chapter about doing this in his AppleScriptObjC Explored ebook.

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