Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
- From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:41:40 +0000
- Mac-eudora-version: 6.0a7
At 5:41 pm +0100 24/2/03, Philippe GRUCHET wrote:
Hi,
A simple and basic question about scripting Mail under Mach-O 10.2:
How to copy-paste to the Clipboard a user selection in any Mail's
displayed (frontmost) window?
-- set userSelection to window 1's selection
-- set the clipboard to userSelection
But, 'selection' is not a Mail's keyword, nor 'content':
-- get window 1's content -- doesn't work
Both 'selection' and 'content' are understood by Mail, but not as we
understand them. Remember Mail is spawned on planet Unix.
If you have a message selected in a message summary, you can get the
text of the message like this:
tell app "Mail" to get the content of item 1 of (get selection)
which must be an obvious way to do it in that corner of the universe.
As to making any sense of Mail or putting its vast and totally
bizarre dictionary to any practical use, take Paul's advice -- or
mine ... forget it! The only good thing about Mail is that it
recognises junk. It takes some to know some.
JD
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