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  • AppleScript not getting front window (affecting Hook and Timing)

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Hook has recently stopped working for me in Orion. When invoked, it seems to give the link from the window which is numerically first instead of frontmost. The app Timing has the same problem. Both rely on something like the below AppleScript -- which isn't working as expected.

Steps to reproduce:
Close all open windows in Orion, then open two nameless windows, e.g. Window 1 and Window 2. Navigate to different websites in each window. Click on Window 2, to make it frontmost. Then invoke Hook, or equivalently run the following in Script Editor:

tell application "Orion"
	set w to front window
	set t to current tab of w
	set cn to name of t
	set cu to URL of t
	return "[" & cn & "](" & cu & ")"
end tell

Expected behavior:
This should return a markdown link to the website in the frontmost window, Window 2. Instead (on my Mac), it returns the link of the open tab in Window 1.

Orion, OS version; hardware type:
Version 0.99.122-beta (WebKit 615.1.11.7)
M1 MacBook Pro, 13.2

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    17 days later

    Found this same bug, but can also suggest a workaround.

    The following should all return the same result, but they do not always:

    	return name of front window
	return name of first window
	return name of first window whose index is 1

    index indicates the order in which windows are frontmost. Therefore, first window whose index is 1 works as expected. front window and first window should do the same; however, they seem to return whichever window was opened first, regardless of whether it is at the front.

    Until this is fixed, therefore, scripters can use first window whose index is 1.

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