Cocoa applications tend to come to the foreground automatically
whenever I drag files to their Dock icon. Sometimes, however, I'd
prefer my application to stay in the background and just start working
on the file, while giving feedback through the Dock icon.
But this isn't supposed to be a background-only process -- ideally,
activation behavior would depend on the type of the file(s) I just
dragged to the Dock.
(You might think such behavior would confuse users. But I do think it
would be useful in situations where users drag lots of items to the
application's Dock icon, because they want them to be dealt with
sequentially. And this kind of non-standard behavior would certainly
only be an option.)
So is anyone aware of a way to prevent an application from activating
in these situations -- similar to sending preventWindowOrdering to
keep windows in the background after mouse clicks?
Thanks!
Peter.
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