Use Accessibility API to make an app active

Author: intitni

Tool/Sources/AXExtension/AXUIElement.swift

@@ -136,7 +136,16 @@ public extension AXUIElement {
     }
 
     var isFrontmost: Bool {
-        (try? copyValue(key: kAXFrontmostAttribute)) ?? false
+        get {
+            (try? copyValue(key: kAXFrontmostAttribute)) ?? false
+        }
+        set {
+            AXUIElementSetAttributeValue(
+                self,
+                kAXFrontmostAttribute as CFString,
+                newValue as CFBoolean
+            )
+        }
     }
 
     var focusedWindow: AXUIElement? {

Tool/Sources/AppActivator/AppActivator.swift

@@ -16,14 +16,17 @@ public extension NSWorkspace {
             if activated { return }
 
             // Fallback solution
-
-            let appleScript = """
-            tell application "System Events"
-                set frontmost of the first process whose unix id is \
-            \(ProcessInfo.processInfo.processIdentifier) to true
-            end tell
-            """
-            try await runAppleScript(appleScript)
+            
+            let axApplication = AXUIElementCreateApplication(ProcessInfo.processInfo.processIdentifier)
+            axApplication.isFrontmost = true
+//
+//            let appleScript = """
+//            tell application "System Events"
+//                set frontmost of the first process whose unix id is \
+//            \(ProcessInfo.processInfo.processIdentifier) to true
+//            end tell
+//            """
+//            try await runAppleScript(appleScript)
         }
     }
 
@@ -32,15 +35,17 @@ public extension NSWorkspace {
             guard let app = await XcodeInspector.shared.safe.previousActiveApplication
             else { return }
             try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: UInt64(delay * 1_000_000_000))
-            _ = app.activate()
+            app.appElement.isFrontmost = true
+//            _ = app.activate()
         }
     }
 
     static func activatePreviousActiveXcode(delay: TimeInterval = 0.2) {
         Task { @MainActor in
             guard let app = await XcodeInspector.shared.safe.latestActiveXcode else { return }
             try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: UInt64(delay * 1_000_000_000))
-            _ = app.activate()
+            app.appElement.isFrontmost = true
+//            _ = app.activate()
         }
     }
 }

Tool/Sources/ChatTab/ChatTab.swift

@@ -67,10 +67,10 @@ open class BaseChatTab {
 
     public init(store: StoreOf<ChatTabItem>) {
         chatTabStore = store
-        self.id = store.id
-        self.title = store.title
 
         Task { @MainActor in
+            self.title = store.title
+            self.id = store.id
             storeObserver.observe { [weak self] in
                 guard let self else { return }
                 self.title = store.title

Tool/Sources/XcodeInspector/XcodeInspector+TriggerCommand.swift

@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@ public extension AppInstanceInspector {
         guard path.count >= 2 else { throw cantRunCommand("Path too short.") }
 
         if activateApp {
-            if !runningApplication.activate() {
-                Logger.service.error("""
-                Trigger menu item \(sourcePath): \
-                Xcode not activated.
-                """)
-            }
+            appElement.isFrontmost = true
+//            if !runningApplication.activate() {
+//                Logger.service.error("""
+//                Trigger menu item \(sourcePath): \
+//                Xcode not activated.
+//                """)
+//            }
         } else {
             if !runningApplication.isActive {
                 Logger.service.error("""

Version.xcconfig

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-APP_VERSION = 0.34.1
-APP_BUILD = 413
+APP_VERSION = 0.34.2
+APP_BUILD = 414