Re: [PATCH v2] git-gui: bring Wish process to front on Mac

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de> writes:

> On Mac OS X, any application that is started from the Terminal will open
> behind all running applications; as a work-around, manually bring ourselves
> to the front. (Stolen from gitk, commit 76bf6ff93e.)
>
> We do this as the very first thing, so that any message boxes that might pop
> up during the rest of the startup sequence are actually seen by the user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Haller <stefan@haller-berlin.de>
> ---

Pat, is there any progress on this?  I do not mind, and I actually
would prefer, a pull request early in the development cycle.

"I've been busy and haven't got around to it", is a perfectly
acceptable response.  Just pinging to check.

> Changes since the first patch: 
>  - add catch
>  - specify full path to /usr/bin/osascript
>
>  git-gui.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/git-gui.sh b/git-gui.sh
> index e133331..a792924 100755
> --- a/git-gui.sh
> +++ b/git-gui.sh
> @@ -29,6 +29,21 @@ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA}]
>  
>  ######################################################################
>  ##
> +## On Mac, bring the current Wish process window to front
> +
> +if {[tk windowingsystem] eq "aqua"} {
> +	catch {
> +		exec /usr/bin/osascript -e [format {
> +			tell application "System Events"
> +				set frontmost of processes whose unix id is %d to true
> +			end tell
> +		} [pid] ]
> +	}
> +}
> +
> +
> +######################################################################
> +##
>  ## Tcl/Tk sanity check
>  
>  if {[catch {package require Tcl 8.4} err]