Re: Eudora Settings (was Re: (no subject))
Re: Eudora Settings (was Re: (no subject))
- Subject: Re: Eudora Settings (was Re: (no subject))
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:14:43 -0700
On 4/10/03 10:24 AM, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 7:30 am -0700 10/4/03, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> Ohmigod, what a way to design a program...
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It's a terrific way to design a program, because every single
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addition to the program is immediately scriptable. If Steve Dorner
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were to add the ability to change header colors, for example, this
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would be given a setting number and users would immediately be able
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to script it without waiting two years for someone to rewrite an aete
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dictionary. No wild new syntax to learn either -- just set setting x
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to y.
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It is quite clear from comments like this from you and John Welchm,
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both Entourage users, that neither of you have any understanding of
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Eudora.
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If I want to find out which settings apply to certain options, I can
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run a script to search for a string or regular expressioni n the
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settings list and have the answer before you have even got your
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entourage dictionary displayed, let alone found the dictionary entry.
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So when you understand Eudora and have the slightest interest in it
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your comments might have some value.
There's really no need to be personally abrasive, John. I'm sure that if I
were a Eudora user I too, as a moderately advanced AppleScripter, would
learn all that stuff. And I can see how useful it is, indeed. Nevertheless,
I do have to agree with John Welch when he berates it for being hidden and
difficult. I mean - aren't you the one who has told us all several times
recently that the essence of the AppleScript language is meant to be its
ease of use (re UI scripting, Cal vs. Sal, and so on)? I guess it's all a
matter of degree, and some people actually enjoy and relish the cryptic
aspects of coding, and don't find it difficult, while most do. Now here you
are being contemptuous of having to open and display a dictionary! That's
hardly a chore - it's where all an application's terms are _supposed_ to be.
I wish AppleScript dictionaries had better explanations and examples, but
that's another matter. At least they should contain all scriptable aspects
of an app - that's what AppleScripting applications is all about, for
goodness sake. That you might have some "shortcuts" which work before the
AETE can be brought up to date - sure, that's great. But eventually it
should be up to date.
I haven't participated in any discussions about Eudora during the past four
years, precisely because I don't use it, and I shouldn't have started now.
Sorry. As long as those on this AppleScript list who use Eudora are aware
that they need to learn about all these x-settings if they want to script it
to the degree that other applications just need an AppleScript dictionary,
that's no real concern of mine. But it is one of the reasons why I've never
been tempted to "give it a go" - that and the strange-looking scripts you
and others post referring to messages and folders. It just seems too arcane.
I'd rather learn Python.
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Paul Berkowitz
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