I've done as you suggest regarding theCalendar and used what you got to work but neither does now - I'm sure I did get a basic text entry working before. I must have an error somewhere in the script so I'll copy the original one over again and see if I can get it to work.
I'd like to try debugging AppleScripts by stepping through the code. I write quite a bit of Perl code for CGI scripts and use ActivePerl's Komodo IDE. It will allow the debugging of a number of different languages but not AppleScript. Do you use a debugger and if so is it an inexpensive one?
