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: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:20:06 -0700
On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 09:35 US/Pacific, cricket wrote:
Much of Applescript is based on what users demand for specific
applications. We've had very little request for this ability, believe
it or not, so other things took higher priority. We quadrupled the
scriptability of Mail in Jaguar (thanks for noticing!) and this is one
thing we didn't get to. Comments on this list have helped bring it up
to higher priority.
Ask and you shall receive.
Seems to me there's hardly anything more basic than shuffling text
between applications so we can use each for their particular strengths.
What's surprising us is that while Cocoa is being touted as rapid
application development, it's not apparent at the clipboard level. Ok
"pasteboard" if you insist, but a flexible clipboard implementation is
one of the sine qua nons of modern computing since the first Mac.
There's sample AppleEvent handlers available from Apple's developer
site. Not rocket science. Just install some temp ones for Cut, Copy,
and Paste plus an AEIdle handler before NSMain() until Cocoa frameworks
get it together.
enum {
kMailEventIDCut = 'Mcut',
kMailEventIDCopy = 'Mcpy',
kMailEventIDPaste = 'Mpst'
};
Don't even put 'em in the dictionary. Just let us know <<event Mcut>>
etc.
Philip
Yes, it really works that way. We don't hate you. There is no alien
conspiracy. :)
- cricket
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:36 AM, John C. Welch wrote:
This is something that needs to be done in Cocoa (so all apps can
benefit). It's on my list, so I'll keep checking on it. :)
I don't *even* want to know how Cocoa on the Mac made it this far
without
that ability...mumblemumbleaviemumblemumble
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