"Notify Kit" scripts or some other way to "activate" Eudora on new mail?
"Notify Kit" scripts or some other way to "activate" Eudora on new mail?
- Subject: "Notify Kit" scripts or some other way to "activate" Eudora on new mail?
- From: Maurice Weitman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:32:16 -0700
Hi, folks,
I'm running Eudora Pro 5.1 (in paid mode if that matters) under OS
9.1 with AS 1.6.
I'd love to have the Eudora app brought to the front when new mail
arrives. As you may know, one can have Eudora play a sound, flash the
icon in the menu bar, and/or put up a dialog box, but there's no
option for activating Eudora.
So I turned to AppleScript (at which I am NOT adept.) Qualcomm's
documentation for AppleScript in general seems a tad stale: most
files are dated in 1997, but are really even older than that.
One file has a broken link to an ftp for the "Notify Kit." The files
in the Notify Kit which I found on my disc from past Eudora versions
are from January, 1995, and don't seem to work properly.
Since Qualcomm's link is broken, and they don't answer my emails
about this, and since there's no copyright notice anywhere, I've
uploaded the Eudora Notify Kit to my idisk for you to peruse and
enjoy. It's at:
http://homepage.mac.com/irrex/FileSharing.html
As an example of its dysfunctionality, the "Start Notifying" script contains:
on open apps
repeat with a in apps
tell application "Eudora" to start notifying a
end repeat
end open
And if I try dropping my applet on it to bring Eudora to the front
(which contains:
tell application "Eudora"
activate
end tell
)
I get an error message complaining: "Some parameters weren't
understood" and pressing the edit button reveals that "start
notifying a" is highlighted.
The same error message occurs when the "Notice Test" applet (part of
the Notify Kit) is dropped on it, too.
So... I'll appreciate any help in getting this to work, or any
pointers to more recent scripting Eudora information.
I'm wondering if something in the OSAX broke with OS changes over the
years, or if the scripts need to be updated to accommodate changes in
AS since 1995.
I would appreciate any help and insights to getting this to work, or
to another way to accomplish this.
--
Thanks and regards,
Maurice