Is it possible to know the active application?

[PhilippeP]

is it possible to know the name of the active application in front of macOS in Xojo ?

thanks

[Emily-Elizabeth_Howard]

You can do it with MBS plugins and possibly declares

MBS + frontmost appsication

Once in a blue moon, when logging back into my Mac, my menubar application has an unhandled exception from the following code: Var t as String Dim w As New NSWorkspaceMBS Dim n As NSRunningApplicationMBS = w.frontmostApplication t = n.localizedName It’s caused by w.frontmostApplication returning nil My workaround is to check if w, or n = nil, and returning if it is. This method is called by a timer every .3 seconds, and sends a shell command if the user has switched applications. Is there a…

[Mark_Sweeney]

MBS has a plugin and example project that can help you - It’s what I use in a couple of apps.

MBS example

[Eric_Williams]

This can also be done with macOSLib.

[PhilippeP]

thanks all for fast answers