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Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail

On 10/01/2002 19:41, "cricket" <email@hidden> wrote:

>> My #1 request is to be able to get the selected text via AppleScript.
>
> This is something that needs to be done in Cocoa (so all apps can
> benefit). It's on my list, so I'll keep checking on it. :)

I don't *even* want to know how Cocoa on the Mac made it this far without
that ability...mumblemumbleaviemumblemumble


>
>> I hope you and the Mail team will be able to work that in. I also
>> have a very tiny and non-critical UI request. It is that
>> traditionally, one can choose any of the buttons in modal dialogs
>> which don't have text boxes by typing a single key without modifiers.
>> For example when the options are "Save", "Don't Save", and "Cancel",
>> then one could just type a "d" and the 'DontSave' action would be
>> performed.
>
> I assume you're not talking about Applescript here? I've actually not
> heard of that convention before of using a single key. Sounds useful,
> though.

Or a more common one is cmd-first letter of the button. Both of these are
very old Mac UI conventions.

john

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