Hello John and Emmanuel,

Thank you for your reply.

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 08:30  PM, John Delacour wrote:

> Script Menu passes everything through System Events, so the frontmost
> process whenever you run a script from there, is System Events, even
> if you can't see it.  I don't use Script Menu and think it's worth
> buying iKey.
>
> I think the best way to do it, if you must use Script menu, is as
> below.  Only cocoa documents have the property 'path', so you haven't
> a wide choice.
>
> tell application "Finder"
> --all one line
>   set processnames to name of processes whose name is "TextEdit" or
> name is "Nisus Writer Express" or name is "some other name"
> -- end of line
> end tell
> set pathlist to {}
> repeat with p in processnames
>   set p to contents of p
>   tell application p
>     set end of pathlist to «class ppth» of document 1
>   end tell
> end repeat
> choose from list pathlist default items pathlist with multiple
> selections allowed
>

This means that practically, it is impossible to "tell the frontmost 
application"... (except for some applications that can trigger scripts 
on their own.  -- But in these cases, "tell" iself is not needed, as 
John has pointed out in the Nisus mainling list...).
In Frontier, we can write for example a script like this:

on testscript () {
        system.verbs.apps.style.bringToFront ();
        system.verbs.apps.style.openDocument ("Macintosh 
HD:Users:ni:Desktop:myscript.pl");
        local (appname = sys.frontmostApp (), wname);
        with objectModel {
                wname = system.verbs.apps[appname].get (document [1].name)};
        dialog.notify (wname)}

and call it from (for example) Nisus Writer.

I think this is possible because Frontier is running fully at the 
background.  Perhaps System Events is not really running at the 
background...??

Best regards,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan