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[Zardshard]

It’s quite hard-coded and hacky, but, nonetheless

@Nexus-6

I’m not particularly proud of it (oh well, I am very proud of the overall solution but, you got it… ) but I don’t know if there’s any public API or a clean way to achieve this. Can anybody chime in?

Couldn’t find a public API, but I did find a slightly cleaner way by grepping for all instances of AS_BRING_TEAM_TO_FRONT to find all the functions that used it.

#include <WindowInfo.h> // private header
// ...
do_bring_to_front_team(BRect(), messenger.Team(), false);

do_bring_to_front_team takes two extra parameters related to window zooming. It then promptly proceeds to ignore those two parameters . So I’ve just filled them in with some sensible default values.

[Nexus-6]

@Zardshard

It’s quite hard-coded and hacky, but, nonetheless

The intent wasn’t to create a general purpose solution but who knows…

@Zardshard

do_bring_to_front_team

It’s where I’ve taken the code from. It’s a bit cleaner but it doesn’t change the substance of using a private call.

[Zardshard]

Fair enough, as long as it works

[scott_puopolo18]

Is this type of solution required on a native app? Or is this just a result of using a foreign app in Haiku?

[Nexus-6]

Native apps offer better and easier mechanisms to communicate. This solution is required because Claws is a GTK app which offers almost no way to integrate with Haiku unless you use some nasty hacks like this.