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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:57:43 -0700
On 10/2/02 4:49 AM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
Let me ask you this...can you imagine Microsoft pointing to Wordperfect as
>
an example of how to implement VBA in a word-processing application?
But Word, even on Windows, is a commercial application that costs a lot of
money. It doesn't come free, bundled, with Windows. I don't think "Notepad"
is particularly scriptable by VBA. TextEdit quite outclasses Notepad, and
eventually (sigh) will do so in the scripting department too. It's certainly
true that Outlook Express in Windows - bundled, free - is a lot more
developed than Mail. It's also had a lot longer to get there.
Where Apple sells apps commercially - FileMaker Pro, iPod - I think we
should expect top-quality scripting there, yes.
There does seem to be a strange schizoid gap between the people "on high"
who decided that the OS X Apple apps should be scriptable, and the
developers (and their managers) who actually implemented the apps. At least
in OS 10.0, where it all started, it didn't seem to have occurred to them
that they needed experienced AppleScript programmers to implement, or at
least oversee, the AppleScript implementation, and we have more than enough
evidence that a lot of it was done by people who didn't know, care or
appreciate AppleScript. The signs are all that, since then, they've been
making a valiant effort to rectify that, sometimes after the fact, but it
still looks as if they are a bit "stretched": not enough AppleScript experts
to go round. I would imagine that in due course, if the will is still there
"on high" as it really does seem to be, internal AppleScript training will
sink in. From the few hints we've heard about AppleScript X, it looks like
this is going to be a major effort from the ground up, not applied "after
the fact".
I do think things will go on getting better.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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