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Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
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Re: Scripting Mail:get selection


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Mail:get selection
  • From: Philippe GRUCHET <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 07:10:22 +0100

cricket,

Your script works really fine here, but uses localized interface items.
So, I prefer to handle them by id instead of translated words:


tell application "Mail" to activate
tell application "System Events"
click application process "Mail"'s menu bar 1's menu 4's menu item 5
--> returns full words as displayed in menu bar
the clipboard
clipboard info -- optional but useful
end tell


Note 1: Works fine from "ScriptMenu" too.

Note 2: Mach-O 10.2.4
Apple's SE2
System Events 1.2


Tip:

tell me to open alias ":System:Library:CoreServices:System Events.app:"

--> startup disk's name is auto fill-in and then, the System Events dictionary is open in Apple's SE.



Thank you very much for the help you brought to me!


Kind regards,
Philippe Gruchet/SVM Mac
VNU Publications France
http://svmmac.vnunet.fr


Reference:

I wrote:

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?

Does it need a 'tell application "System Events"' block?

I just need an handler to grab selected text.
Thanks in advance for your help.


You wrote:

... you could use System Events scripting to paste clipboard text into a selection. For example,

tell application "System Events"
tell process "Mail"
click menu item "Paste" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell

Note: This works in 10.2.3 and later and you have to enable access for assistive devices in Universal Access prefs.
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