How to order a window to front if you are not in the Application in Objective-C

Question

Is there a way to make a "makeKeyAndOrderToFront" without beeing in the Application?

If I am in Safari and in the Menu Bar there is a MenuItem to my App, after I press this, i want to show a window of my App in the Front (makeKeyAndOrderToFront makes this just if you are in the Application).

Which way can I use? And how can I animate this Window (like Tweeties Add new Tweet -> atebits.com).

Thank you!

Answer 1

As you've discovered, changing the window order within your application does not have any impact on which application is active. You can bring your application to the foreground by activating it:

[NSApp activateIgnoringOtherApps:YES];

If your application had a dock icon the behavior would be similar to the user clicking on it.