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A different question (Was: Re: structured data storage?)
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  • Subject: A different question (Was: Re: structured data storage?)
  • From: "Michael P. Wilson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:32:55 -0500

Hmm... Here's a tangental question...

When I set a rule action to "Run AppleScript" how does the script being executed receive the context that tripped it off? Where in the script can I reference the particular message?

If an atomic action was set up as a rule trigger, then the looping structure would, of course, disappear completely.

On Saturday, Jan 25, 2003, at 10:54 America/New_York, Philip Aker wrote:

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:53 AM, Michael P. Wilson wrote:

(I'm a 26 year veteran programmer, but AS is a really strange environment, even being a perl monk and a high-end C++ weenie.)

[...]

But I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to store these two tables. I don't want to rely on nonstandard software components...

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out your request, but I believe you could do this effectively with a combination of an AppleScript and a Tcl script. In particular, the Tcl 'clock scan' command to convert the AppleScript dates to an 8 byte hex format and pump the address and the converted date into a Tcl list which can then be ordered with 'lsort -dict'. Then it's up to you to get the last ordered list item of the same address and compare. You can do all file I/O and use 'exec' in Tcl to utilize old unix chestnuts. It also occurs to me that since you're comfortable in C++, why not just write a tool to do the dirty work on the files and call that via 'do shell script'.

Maybe someone else would have a suggestion for speeding up the following Mail script:

set m_box to "Sent Messages"
set delim to quoted form of tab
tell application "Mail"
try
set acct to account 1
tell acct
tell mailbox m_box
repeat with m in messages
set reci to address of (to recipient of m) as string
set ds to date sent of m as string
do shell script "echo " & (reci & delim & ds) & " >> ~/Desktop/SentDates.txt"
end repeat
end tell
end tell
return true
on error
return false
end try
end tell


HTH,

Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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