Re: Scripting Mail.app suggestions requested
Re: Scripting Mail.app suggestions requested
- Subject: Re: Scripting Mail.app suggestions requested
- From: Blake Garner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 19:18:16 -0700
I can easily select the second message in the list and use the up
arrow to display the first message. However I don't know how to have
applescript "push the up arrow key"..
More suggestions are welcome. I will post if I find and answer...
thanks,
Blake-
On 5/31/05, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden> wrote:
> "Blake Garner" wrote:
>
> > I have already tried using the GUI scripting to select the first
> > message in the list by index. But this only selcts the message and
> > doesn't scroll the window.
> >
> > Does anybody have some tricks up their sleve for doing this?
>
> In the way of suggestion, and based on my manual (by hand, not GUI) trials,
> here is a manual action sequence which works, and which might be able to be
> simulated via GUI.
>
> 1. I select the first message in the current sort (the one at the top, that
> is). (You say you can do this by script, but it might still not actually
> "select" -- visually -- the item. I don't know.)
>
> 2. I scroll the window to very end of the message list, so I am viewing the
> bottom of the list (just to put me in a state where I need to scroll back
> up).
>
> Okay, so now the "first" (top) is still selected (it's highlighted in the
> list with my selection color.)
>
> 3. Pressing the Down arrow once does, indeed, select the _second_ (from top)
> message _and_ it scrolls the window to the top (again, the second item is
> still visually selected.)
>
> 4. An Up arrow then selects the first again and does not move the scroll
> position. I am at the top, with item 1 selected again.
>
>
> If your current work has gotten you to the point, then, where the first
> (top) item is selected, then it seems that a Down arrow then Up arrow
> sequence might be tacked on to get you there...(?)
>
> HTH,
> --
> Gary
>
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