Re: Entourage "current identity" raw code not working
Re: Entourage "current identity" raw code not working
- Subject: Re: Entourage "current identity" raw code not working
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:08:42 -0600
On 3/22/2002 8:33 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On 3/22/02 6:18 PM, I wrote:
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> On 3/22/02 6:02 PM, "JollyRoger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Can someone familiar with Entourage tell me what I need to do to get this
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>> working:
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>> set pCurrentIdentityName to name of the +class CIdn;
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> Yes. We've been through this once already.
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> set pCurrentIdentityName to name of the <<property Cidn>>
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> That works, like the last such application property did. Then you write
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> back to say it forces you to retype "property" every time you edit the
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> script, since compiling it changes "property" to "class" and class doesn't
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> work. Then you ask if there's any way around that, and I send you a method
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> with 'using terms from' which I say I think will work OK even in OS's
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> preceding its introduction, and I suggest that you try it. Then you don't
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> try it, and write back to me that you're too busy to try it.
Easy, Paul...I'm going as fast as I can! As you know, I've been extremely
busy this week and am now scrambling to catch up! I sent out the post to
the list just before the private email to you (I needed to test it more
thoroughly before telling you it wouldn't work for me).
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Very sorry. I see you've just this minute written me back to say that 'using
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terms from' takes too long in execution.
Correct. The "using terms from" block causes very long delays where you can
move the cursor yet the entire machine is unresponsive when you run it on a
machine that does not have the "using terms from" app installed. This will
make most folks think their computer is frozen. Not good. :(
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You'll either have to keep on typing 'property' every time you edit and
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compile a script (maybe use "Replace All" in Smile or SD?),
This is what I am currently doing, but it is not optimal since this script
is editable and public. I've added a note to the top of the script warning
of the situation; but I can almost guarantee you someone will skip past the
note and email me asking why the script malfunctions after they edit it.
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or use the normal application names like everyone else does, and let the user
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find 'application "Microsoft Entourage"' on first run IF they have changed the
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name of the app, which hardly anyone does nowadays.
This script works with both Outlook Express and Entourage. But I can't
expect users to have BOTH installed. For someone who uses Entourage, it is
inappropriate for the script to ask them to locate Outlook Express.
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It would be interesting if Chris Nebel could explain why <<property>>
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compiles to <<class> and why it used to, but no longer, works if you try to
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compile <<class>> fro an application property. Probably, this is another
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"bug" that's been "fixed". If so, it would be nice if it could be fixed even
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more so that <<property>> compiles to <<property>>. Or if it's a new bug,
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perhaps it could be fixed in due course.
Yes, that would be nice.
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