Re: Applescript with Eudora
Re: Applescript with Eudora
- Subject: Re: Applescript with Eudora
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:47:02 -0300
At 9:21 AM -0600 24/04/02, David Crowe wrote:
Having the basics under my belt, I then tried to count all messages
more than 30 days old:
count (messages in mailbox "Out" whose local seconds < ((current
date) - (30 * 60 * 60 * 24)))
Unfortunately, Eudora doesn't support "whose" clauses.
For this I was rewarded with the message "Eudora got an error: Wrong
keyword for a special function". No matter what variations I tried, I
kept getting the same message.
Ever has it been thus.
I have since programmed a repeat loop to go through the mailbox one
message at a time. This works, but takes forever.
Mmmm, slow it is.
My hunch is that Eudora simply doesn't support operations using
'whose' to select a list.
Support them anywhere it doesn't.
On an aside, it seems to me that this is the fundamental reason why
AppleScript is not more popular. Eudora may only have implemented
part of the language and their documentation is virtually
non-existent (their manual on their website was last updated in
1995).
Frustrating it is. Hound them we must.
Apple doesn't consider it their job to document all the
capabilities of AppleScript-capable applications. Dictionaries are
inadequate sources of documentation. The only commercial book I could
find (Ethan Wilde's AppleScript for the Internet) is very sloppy,
with an index that has never yet had the word that I'm looking for in
it, even if it is in the book (Display Dialog, current date are not
indexed, for example).
Computer book indexes are often very poorly done. Quality indexing
is an art and few take the time to do it right for computer books.
Even Danny Goodman's book, which was pretty good and not badly
written, has a defective index.
Consequently, one is left to rely on sample
scripts, when available, or on this email list.
The list is the force.
Yoda
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