Print Causing App to go to background

[djbgraphicdesign]

Hello Everyone! It has been quite some time since I have been here I hope everyone is doing well and I appreciate all the help I have gotten on here.

I have just recently upgraded to creative cloud from 6. I have a script that uses the print function to print some separations into a folder. For some reason with creative cloud, after the print function executes, Illustrator will go to the background, meaning the application will not be active, and the last application I touched, such as a web browser will be focused instead.

Is there a simple way to keep Illustrator active? I did not have this problem with 6. I noticed alert messages or changing the screen mode will make it active but is there a less intrusive way? I would rather just click to keep it active than to deal with that crap, haha.

Thanks everyone!

[Silly-V]

Hello!

Wow this is strange, have you tried to do other things in Illustrator to try and bring the focus back other than alerts? I would try to make a new blank dummy document and close it without saving to see if that'd work.

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

last case scenario, you can use BridgeTalk.bringToFront(app) or illustrator.reveal() it'll be convoluted but I think it should work.

[djbgraphicdesign]

Thanks Guys!!

All solutions work but illustrator.reveal(); seems the least clunky so I will go with that, I added it right after where I use the print functions and it seems to work really well. I appreciate the help as always, and I would have never known about illustrator.reveal(); without it because it is nowhere in the documentation I was looking at lol.

Thanks again and I may be back, I am having trouble with the UI click handlers I used in CS6 to deselect children in one panel when something from another panel is selected. I will make another post here soon if I can't figure it out on my own haha but I will give it a shot first.