At 6:48 pm +0900 7/5/03, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:

>  Is there any way to write a script:
>
>  tell the frontmost application
>      ...
>  end tell
>  ?
>
>  It works in Script Editor if the script has been already saved and put
>  the path of the script on the clipboard. But if I run it from Script
>  Menu when TextEdit or other applications is active, it does not work:
>  nothing is put on the clipboard.

You will see one of the problems if you run this script from the Script Menu:

using terms from application "System Events"
        set proc1 to name of process 1 whose frontmost is true
end using terms from
display dialog proc1

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





JD