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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: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 16:25:04 -0700
  • Thread-topic: How to get text of frontmost window in Mail?

On 5/10/06 3:31 PM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On May 10, 2006, at 3:24 PM, Roger Howard wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> In Tiger, they are.  I think they are first saved after 30 seconds or
> a minute, and then are continually saved as the message remains
> open.  I haven't timed it.
>
> But, as I said, they are also saved when you press command-S.

Can you not save them from the script itself? Is there no way to refer to
the front window being worked on, and save it? Then you know you'd be
getting the up-to-date text as well.

--
Paul Berkowitz


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