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PONSWindow launched from statusItem menuItem does not appear as active window
 

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    <p>I have a statusItem application written in PyObjC. The statusItem has a menuItem which is supposed to launch a new window when it is clicked:</p> <pre><code># Create statusItem statusItem = NSStatusBar.systemStatusBar().statusItemWithLength_(NSVariableStatusItemLength) statusItem.setHighlightMode_(TRUE) statusItem.setEnabled_(TRUE) statusItem.retain() # Create menuItem menu = NSMenu.alloc().init() menuitem = NSMenuItem.alloc().initWithTitle_action_keyEquivalent_('Preferences', 'launchPreferences:', '') menu.addItem_(menuitem) statusItem.setMenu_(menu) </code></pre> <p>The launchPreferences: method is:</p> <pre><code>def launchPreferences_(self, notification): preferences = Preferences.alloc().initWithWindowNibName_('Preferences') preferences.showWindow_(self) </code></pre> <p>Preferences is an NSWindowController class:</p> <pre><code>class Preferences(NSWindowController): </code></pre> <p>When I run the application in XCode (Build &amp; Go), this works fine. However, when I run the built .app file externally from XCode, the statusItem and menuItem appear as expected but when I click on the Preferences menuItem the window does not appear. I have verified that the launchPreferences code is running by checking console output. </p> <p>Further, if I then double click the .app file again, the window appears but if I change the active window away by clicking, for example, on a Finder window, the preferences window disappears. This seems to me to be something to do with the active window. </p> <p><strong>Update 1</strong> I have tried <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152344/nswindow-launched-from-statusitem-menuitem-does-not-appear-as-active-window#152399">these</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/152344/nswindow-launched-from-statusitem-menuitem-does-not-appear-as-active-window#152409">two</a> answers but neither work. If I add in to the launchPreferences method:</p> <pre><code>preferences.makeKeyAndOrderFront_() </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>preferences.setLevel_(NSNormalWindowLevel) </code></pre> <p>then I just get an error:</p> <blockquote> <p>'Preferences' object has no attribute</p> </blockquote>
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