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: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:50:46 -0400
On 10/02/2002 12:57, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Let me ask you this...can you imagine Microsoft pointing to Wordperfect as
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> an example of how to implement VBA in a word-processing application?
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But Word, even on Windows, is a commercial application that costs a lot of
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money. It doesn't come free, bundled, with Windows. I don't think "Notepad"
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is particularly scriptable by VBA. TextEdit quite outclasses Notepad, and
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eventually (sigh) will do so in the scripting department too. It's certainly
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true that Outlook Express in Windows - bundled, free - is a lot more
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developed than Mail. It's also had a lot longer to get there.
Well, point of fact, in windows world, they practically ship Office in boxes
of Tide. But the truth is, the free stuff is where people *start* to script.
It's the beginners that need a top-flight dictionary
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Where Apple sells apps commercially - FileMaker Pro, iPod - I think we
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should expect top-quality scripting there, yes.
Well, how about *any* scripting in Apple-branded professional applications?
john
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"si hoc legere scis nimium eruditiones habes."
("if you can read this, you're overeducated.")
Jeff La Grua
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