Re: Mail.app selection of front window
Re: Mail.app selection of front window
- Subject: Re: Mail.app selection of front window
- From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 18:03:17 -0500
On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 04:58 PM, Matthew Galaher wrote:
I installed the UI Scripting beta software, and so Cricket's bit of
code compiles without error, but when I run the following:
--
try
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell
on error the_error
display dialog the_error buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
end try
--
It returns "NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4"
Any thoughts?
I don't know for sure, but did you choose the 'Enable access for
assistive devices' checkbox in the Universal Access control panel? You
need to.
It probably still won't work, but you'll get a different result. I get
the entire contents of the message that contains my selected text.
That's because when Mail goes into the background the current selection
becomes greyed-out. That means if you pop back in there and do a copy,
even manually, the selection isn't the 'Active' selection. The top-most
( or first or whatever ) selection is the mail message that you had
selected to display and that is what gets copied. If you open the
message into it's own window by double clicking it, then run your
script, you get the selection that you have made in the document.
Paul Skinner
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