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Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail

On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 09:35 US/Pacific, cricket wrote:

Much of Applescript is based on what users demand for specific applications. We've had very little request for this ability, believe it or not, so other things took higher priority. We quadrupled the scriptability of Mail in Jaguar (thanks for noticing!) and this is one thing we didn't get to. Comments on this list have helped bring it up to higher priority.

Ask and you shall receive.

Seems to me there's hardly anything more basic than shuffling text between applications so we can use each for their particular strengths. What's surprising us is that while Cocoa is being touted as rapid application development, it's not apparent at the clipboard level. Ok "pasteboard" if you insist, but a flexible clipboard implementation is one of the sine qua nons of modern computing since the first Mac. There's sample AppleEvent handlers available from Apple's developer site. Not rocket science. Just install some temp ones for Cut, Copy, and Paste plus an AEIdle handler before NSMain() until Cocoa frameworks get it together.

enum {
kMailEventIDCut = 'Mcut',
kMailEventIDCopy = 'Mcpy',
kMailEventIDPaste = 'Mpst'
};

Don't even put 'em in the dictionary. Just let us know <<event Mcut>> etc.

Philip


Yes, it really works that way. We don't hate you. There is no alien conspiracy. :)



- cricket

On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:36 AM, John C. Welch wrote:

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

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