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Re: Frontmost Message Viewer
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Re: Frontmost Message Viewer


  • Subject: Re: Frontmost Message Viewer
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:56:02 -0700

On Dec 29, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

So, the frontmost message viewer should be the one with the largest index. If I wanted to select a mailbox in the frontmost message viewer, I should be able to run ..

Windows are always numbered front to back, so the frontmost window is always window 1.


What I need to do is get the selected mailboxes or messages of the FRONTMOST message viewer window. There does not seem to be any way do do this. I smell a bug here. But, maybe, someone knows something I've missed. I hope!

"front window", "first window" and "window 1" are all the same.

The indexing of message viewers is assigned as new message view windows are opened. The first viewer created has index = 1, the next has index = 2, ... &c. and these indexes do not change. The oldest viewer window has index 1, ALWAYS. The youngest window has the index = (count message viewers), ALWAYS. The indexes only change when viewer windows are opened or closed. The "back-to-front window ordering" is ignored.

You're not addressing the windows here, you're addressing the message viewers, which are numbered in the order in which they are created.


This might help you get on the right path:

tell application "Mail"
	index of windows of message viewers
end tell

The smallest number in the list returned by that code fragment will be the frontmost message viewer window.

I don't have time right now to pursue it any further; I'm about to leave the house.

-- Michelle

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