Fetch Softworks

Supressing Fetch coming to foreground (4 posts)

• Started 22 years ago by David Bolling
• Latest reply 22 years ago from Jim Matthews

• David Bolling Member

  I'm causing a Fetch mirror document to open (via a shell script) on a regular interval, and each time Fetch insists on coming to the foreground. Is there any way I can suppress this behavior and let Fetch do its thing while remaining hidden?

  Mac OS 10.0.2
  Fetch 4.0

  Posted 22 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  I think it's the Finder that is bringing Fetch to the front, and I don't know of a way around that. I will look into this and see what I can do.

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 22 years ago #

• David Bolling Member

  Have you found a way around this? This is preventing me from being able to run my script in the background continuously, as Fetch then continually pops to the foreground.

  Posted 22 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You can add this snippet whenever you want to make sure Fetch is not in front:

  tell application "Finder"
  set frontmost of process "Fetch 4.0" to false
  end tell

  or you can hide Fetch this way:

  tell application "Finder"
  set visible of process "Fetch 4.0" to false
  end tell

  I hope that helps,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 22 years ago #