Re: Hiding OE's window
Re: Hiding OE's window
- Subject: Re: Hiding OE's window
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:11:22 -0500
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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 21:23:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: Hiding OE's window
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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It may be that improvements to the OS (not OE, which has not changed in the
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several years since 5.02 came out; 5.03 just added the Hotmail fix) have
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improved responsiveness with respect to to key and menu emulation. It's not
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that they don't work at all, but rather that they are, or were, very
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unreliable. 'puppet menu' cannot be used more than once, or occasionally
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twice, in quick succession. 'type text' and 'typetext" (Sigma's and Sandi's)
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don't (or didn't ) work if you happened to be typing at the time or if
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anything much was going on at all: they might work when OE was totally idle.
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I don't think I ever tried 'input state': I certainly tried everything else.
I've recently had great success with a scripting addition called AutoType,
for emulating keystrokes in Microsoft PowerPoint, (which was good, because
Sigma's, Sandi's and Akua were not working well with MSPP).
It could be becuase AutoType works, (in some "magic" way), differently
that the others. Rather than sending commands directly to the app:
tell application "Whatever"
activate
type text "whatever"
you actually bring the app forward, and then call AutoType outside of
the tell:
tell application "Whatever"
activate
end tell
AutoType "whatever"
I have no idea if this helps the current thread, and I don't have
OE for testing, (does Entourage count?).
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... My "outdated' scripts have been downloaded by about 4000 users
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(OE and Entourage versions). So far, I haven't received any complaint...
Certainly not from me. :)
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