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  • Subject: Re: Looking for AppleScripters willing to help …
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:22:43 -0700

On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Le Stang Jean-Baptiste wrote:

Obviously, Michelle you're not willing to help :p, here is some explanation on why I'm doing this.

No, I'm pointing out that scripting is not the be-all and end-all of doing things; that often it is easier just to do something in the UI manually than to script it--and I think that this is one of those cases.


On a 23" screen I think it is far easier to select a Contextual Menu from the Finder that having to drag & drop all the files to Mail which icon resides in my Dock (at the bottom of the screen, its takes me three mouse drags to take a file from the top right of the screen to the bottom left when it could all be done in one mouse click), this is the only reason that pushes me to try this. My contextual menu offers me a list of (frequent) recipients, or all the contacts of the address book that do have a mail address

As I see it, with the contextual menu, you would first have to right- click on the file you wish to attach to the mail; if you want to attach more than one file, you would have to select them all (command clicking, shift clicking, and or drag selecting) and then right click on one of the selected items. You would then have to choose the recipient from the popup menu.


Sure, the rest, including sending the mail, would be automated.

It doesn't seem to me like you would be saving much time or effort compared to dragging the files to the dock (which entails the same selection methodology as using the contextual menu, typing the recipient (especially with auto-complete active), and clicking the "Send" button.

But as far as what you're asking for help for, I can't help there; I don't use or even have any of those other email programs.

--
"My country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
Senator Carl Schurz of Missouri, 1899


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