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I'm struggling to wrap `[NSRunningApplication runningApplicationWithProcessIdentifier: t_psn]. Here are the docs:

https://developer.apple.com/documentati ... guage=objc

You can find the full source code that will compile in LC 9 here:

https://github.com/trevordevore/lc-maco ... cation.lcb

I'm trying to call `NSRunningApplicationActivateWithOptions()` as follows (2203 is a PID taken from Activity Monitor so adjust accordingly):
The problem is that line 83 always returns nil:
This seems like a pretty straightforward API call and I have a number of other NS* code working. I'm wondering if something is wrong with the way the pId Integer parameter is being passed to the FFI handler?

Any ideas?

I've determined that you don't need to pass an ObjcId to runningApplicationWithProcessIdentifier as it is a class property. The following code returns a valid reference to a running application:
Now I'm getting a crash elsewhere in the code so I'm working on that.

I've been unable to figure out what is causing the crash when calling [NSRunningApplication -activateWithOptions:].

I've confirmed that I am getting an object with class NSRunningApplication by extracting the object returned in an array by [NSRunningApplication +runningApplicationsWithBundleIdentifier:]. I'm currently passing in 0 for the options but passing in acceptable flags still cause crashes.

I wondered if perhaps I needed to use ObjcRetainedId for any object types so I've tried changing those. If that is the cause I haven't found the correct configuration yet.

The code is still available here:

https://github.com/trevordevore/lc-maco ... cation.lcb

You can create the crash by calling the following from the message box after running the code using the Extension Builder:
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping I don't have to set up my machine to compile the LiveCode IDE in order to debug the engine in order to figure this out.

@trevordevore: I think the problem might be that you have 'returns Boolean' on the foreign binding - rather than 'returns CBool'.

@LCMark - Thanks, that fixed it! I had a similar problem with a handler I wrote early on in my experiments. I had defined a parameter in a foreign handler as Integer instead of CUInt. Nothing crashed but the handler didn't work. Once I noticed the problem everything magically fell into place.