Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- Subject: Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:49:27 -0400
On 10/01/2002 18:14, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Just because you, (the application developer) can't see why someone needs to
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> be able to script something is immaterial. Put it in there anyway. The whole
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> idea with AppleScript is to not just allow for simple automation of UI
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> tasks, hell, all you need is QuickKeys for that. The true magic of
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> AppleScript happens when someone comes up with an idea that really perverts
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> what an application can do for good,
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Nevertheless, it would be consistent with Apple's general policy to provide,
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bundled, a plain app that just works OK, and leave the more sophisticated
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possibilities as 3rd-party opportunities to applications such as Entourage
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and Eudora. I think it's reasonable for that principle to be extended to its
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AppleScript implementation, and a cut-off at the point of "automating the
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UI" sounds reasonable to me. Of course. the most exciting stuff in an app
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like Entourage is coming up with stuff that the UI cannot do, but there's no
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reason why Mail needs to provide the same degree of magic.
But then Apple is essentially admitting that for true leadership in
AppleScript implementations, you should go to anyone but Apple....seems a
bit silly for Apple not to have the best AppleScript implementation, doesn't
it?
john
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