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Re: How to get text of frontmost window in Mail?
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Re: How to get text of frontmost window in Mail?


  • Subject: Re: How to get text of frontmost window in Mail?
  • From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:24:41 -0700


On May 10, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
But I'm confused; why would someone want to capture the text of a message in progress with an Applescript? Could you please say what it is that you're trying to accomplish?

The users are creating new mails from a mix of copy/pasted text and original text entered in Mail. We need to strip these mails of certain characters before sending out... the easiest way (in terms of workflow) is to do it as a last step before sending within Mail. But clearly this isn't so easy in Mail...


Yes, I need to process the contents of a new message. As far as I can tell, these *aren't* automatically saved to Drafts, which is why I was asking about processing text from the frontmost editor window... t'would seem to be a straightforward endeavor.

I'm going to try doing it with GUI Scripting so I don't have to remind the user to do anything but run a script (from the Dock perhaps). Identifying which message in Drafts is the current (frontmost) one seems dicey (based on subject perhaps?)

I knew there was a reason I avoided Mail.app scripting.

Cheers and thanks!

-R
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