Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
- Subject: Re: Scripting Palm Desktop (was Re: Saving an attachment from Entourage)
- From: Dave G <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:32:28 -0500
Thanks for writing Allen,
I have just downloaded 2 tutorials on Apple Script so I am still
working at learning it. Your feedback does help. I believe that there
is a developer on the Palm team I have seen posting to this list a
few weeks ago. I certainly hope he hears your feedback. I have only
recently discovered Palm Desktop for the Mac. And I love it. I know
it is old but the features are so... nice! My brain just doesn't work
as well in a strictly linear fashion. It is so incredibly nice to
just drag all the contacts, files and notes for a project onto it's
calender task step, or event date. Whew!
I do plan to eventually get office and therefore Entourage as well.
Last summer I purchased Eudora as I had heard it was one of the
better email programs. As I read through others comments I am
re-thinking Eudora as a solution. Microsoft has done a far better job
with what is scriptable and what is not.
I have been working on a temporary solution to my batch email program
by getting some help on a FileMaker list and doing it with a
FileMaker file. I also have 4D but I am not yet there with the
learning curve.
The latest suggestion is to run this Applet:
Save as an applet, call it with SendAE from FMP3 (bring target
application to front):
local dlist
set dlist to {}
tell application "FileMaker Pro 3.0v5"
set addressList to field "Address" of document 1
tell current record to set {bodyvar, subjectvar, addressvar} to ,
{cell "Body", cell "Subject", cell "Address"}
end tell
repeat with x in addressList
set end of dlist to x & ", "
end repeat
set dlist to dlist as text
set dlist to text 1 thru -3 of dlist
tell application "Eudora"
activate
make message at end of mailbox "Out"
tell message ""
set {field "to", field "subject", field "Bcc", body} to ,
{addressvar, subjectvar, dlist, bodyvar}
end tell
I am still trying to learn which parts I need to modify to change the
file path and to match the exact field names I want to copy and set
to.
Again, thanks for the comments.
Dave Groover
Allen wrote:
... Palm's dictionary is hopelessly out of sync with the reality of its
scripting terms; apparently no one at Palm cares to keep it current.
(Dictionaries are readable by using "Open Dictionary" from Script Editor's
File menu, and opening the application file, but don't bother with Palm.) It
is useless; the only way to find what works is to find existing scripts, or
to ask, or just blindly try. It's pretty hopeless in my opinion, and in the
opinion of most who have tried.
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