On 1/28/2002 at 6:53 PM, Duncan wrote:

>This looked promising when it was run from the Script Editor and
>actually worked. However, when invoked from the BBEdit script menu,
>BBEdit went deaf and eventually timed out with some sort of
>appleevent timeout. So, it was not looking good. Then in the dim
>recesses of my memory I seemed to recall that the call should be
>wrapped in a thread.easycall. I tried the obvious incantation but
>of course this didn't work. So if all else fails read 'the source'
>or RTFM ;-) So a quick jump to thread.easycall in Radio revealed
>all and would you believe the script:

The appleevents are non-reentrant. BBEdit makes the call to Frontier, and
can't accept any more input until Frontier has returned a result of some
sort.

Frontier receives the call, and tries to make a call to BBEdit to get the
text of the frontmost window... but it can't, because BBEdit is still
waiting for a response to the call that started the whole process.

Seth