Re: [MacPerl] Running filters in BBEdit

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:30:55 +0200, Peder Axensten wrote:

>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.

I don't use BBEdit + filters myself, and I'm not too experienced with
MacPerl + AppleEvents either... but I'm pretty sure the following
approach ought to work.

You have to put in the MacPerl equivalent of the AppleScript:

	tell application "MacPerl" to activate

just before you show the dialog.

I'm sure Chris will quickly turn this into a neat AppleScript-free code
snippet in no time...    ;-)

Maybe you'll have to put in code to set the focus back to BBEdit
afterwards.

Applescript's dialogs have an advantage over this: you can tell other
applications to show a dialog. So:

	tell application "BBEdit"
		display dialog "Hello, world" buttons "Hi"
	end tell

will appear with BBEdit in focus. Nice. But I think Applescript uses a
standard OSAX (AppleScript addition) for it, so you can't really use it
with MacPerl.

Any chance of MacPerl acquiring this functionality?    ;-)

-- 
	Bart.

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