Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java)

Subject: Re: AppleScript + Mail (+ Java)

From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>

Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:22:32 -0600

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On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:38 PM, email@hidden wrote:

Michael:

Just judging from the behavior I saw when messing around with the Mail.app, the LSBundleIdentifier can have only one value at a time and there can only be one for the type "U:mailto". Basically, it records whatever the user has selected for use as their defauler mailer, not the mail capable apps they have on the machine.

Mine is probably an older version of Eudora which might explain why it's plist lacked CFBundleURLTypes.

I added as this...

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleURLName</key>

<string>Email Address URL</string>

<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>

<array>

<string>mailto</string>

</array>

<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme</key>

</dict>

</array>

My code still didn't find it so I used lsregister like....

ts1-9:~/devstuff/ls mjh$ lsregister -f "/Applications/Eudora Application Folder/Eudora.app"

Simply using 'touch' on the application bundle itself might of caused a LaunchServices update as indicated in a recent post (I filed a bug report anyhow).

Then my app shows...

ts1-9:~/devstuff/ls mjh$ java -cp .:jnidirect.jar:Linker.jar mailapps

/Applications/Eudora Application Folder/Eudora.app

/Applications/Mail.app

This doesn't indicate that these applications are AppleScriptable, it does indicate that they support the mailto URL, and for these two I believe they do in fact both have AppleScript support. I haven't done all that much with that lately to be able to think of a good simple test to find out. Maybe try a simple script against them using something in the standard suite?

But anyhow for finding mail applications in the standard locations the code I posted yesterday should work.

I also noticed if someone were to do their own JNI anyhow that there is a...

LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/LaunchServicesReference/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000998-CH1g-LSCopyApplicationURLsForURL

available since 10.3 that might be a better choice now then my approach was at 10.2.

Mike Hall mikehall at spacestar dot net

http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall

http://sourceforge.net/projects/macnative

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