Re: Mail.app dictionary
Re: Mail.app dictionary
- Subject: Re: Mail.app dictionary
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:03:20 -0800
On 1/22/02 8:26 AM, "Michael Turner" <email@hidden> wrote:
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From the Mail.app dictionary:
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Class message: An email message
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is deleted integer -- Indicates whether the message is deleted or not
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is read integer -- Indicates whether the message is read or not
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Normally, I would expect these properties to be boolean. Reminds me of
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"C". Am I wrong? I have come to expect being wrong. ;-)
You're not wrong. There's been a sort of rush-job, slightly-better
-than-cosmetic implementation of quasi-AppleScript in most of the new OS X
Apple apps by engineers who didn't know AppleScript. It's obviously company
policy to "add AppleScript", which is a good thing. They just need people
who know how to do it. Now that people are actually starting to use these
apps and want to script them, I'm pretty sure someone will come along to do
the job right. Probably, in the long run, it's good that they kept to their
release dates and got OS X out with parts hanging out so that 3rd-party
vendors started getting on the OS X bandwagon, and also good that they added
all this faulty AppleScript to show that AS is not being abandoned, which it
isn't. I sure hope they have all this fixed by the summer, however.
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Paul Berkowitz