[MacPerl] Running filters in BBEdit

[Peder Axensten <f95-pax@nada.kth.se>]

The combination of MacPerl and BBEdit is great! I've a collection of 
AppleScripts, mainly text filters, for BBEdit that I'm redoing in 
MacPerl for better functionality and speed. Everything works great 
except for dialogs:

if(MacPerl::Answer("Should I insert Russian hyphenation?", "Yes", 
"No!")) { whatever }

This will put up a non-modal dialog in MacPerl, but since I'm in 
BBEdit I can't see it. Clicking *repeatedly* on the MacPerl icon in 
the Finder's task manager palette will eventually make it surface -- 
then I can click a button in my dialog and get on.

This is annoying and new users even think BBEdit hung.

So, any suggestions on how to do simple user input in BBEdit MacPerl filters?

BTW, I do wish there was a MacPerl filters menu, the palette is clumsy...

/Peder

Peder Axensten
mailto:f95-pax@nada.kth.se (Umea, Sweden)

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