Frustrated novice wants to paste the clipboard
Frustrated novice wants to paste the clipboard
- Subject: Frustrated novice wants to paste the clipboard
- From: David Hoerl <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:40:05 -0500
Sigh. What is more troubling than not being able to figure out how to
do something is that I cannot figure out the PROCESS of learning how
to do what seem to be simple things with AppleScript. I have the
O'Reilly book, and the Intro on AppleScript, and I've opened the
Standard Editions dictionary and the application dictionary.
What I am trying to accomplish is to paste the clipboard "as plain
text" into the foremost window of Eudora. This application does not
let you record actions so I cannot use the RECORD feature to help me
out here. [Guess I could try some other application to do this, but
its not knowing HOW to find this out which is most frustrating.]
However, my experience tells me this is one reason that so few people
use AppleScript - its just so d*mn hard to get the simplest thing
done without a lot of digging.
So, I'm sure most of you can tell me in an instant what line of code
I need to make this work.
This is what I tried:
copy the (clipboard as type plain text) to window 1
The process I followed was to first open the Eudora dictionary and
look for some command that approximated "copy" or "paste". Not found.
So I look in the Standard Additions dictionary. Nope. So I right
click the mouse and see if anything there. Nope.
So, would I like the command to accomplish this? Yes. But what I'd
REALLY like is to better understand HOW I can on my own figure out
how to accomplish tasks such as this.
Thanks.
David
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