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I have however experienced a problem with the Mail UI script when it follows the following Safari script:

tell application "Safari"

tell front window

tell current tab

set HTML_Tab_Name to name

email contents

end tell

Although the Safari applescript to

email contents

commands Mail to display the html contents of its Safari tab, it also commands Mail to set the subject of the outgoing message to the name of the Safari tab. Modifiying your UI script, I have been able to replace the value of an outgoing message subject with the following script:

tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
set value of text field "Subject:" of front window to "New Subject"
end tell
end tell

To my surprise, the Safari applescript command

email contents

continued on its own. If Safari emailed contents of a long html page, then even though the UI script changed the subject line, the Safari

email contents

command replaced it, I guess asynchronously. This occurred even when the UI script changed the subject back to the name of the Safari's tab. What the UI script performed, the email contents script reversed.

Can the UI script be commanded to wait until the Safari

email contents

command has completely finished its execution?

On Feb 1, 2010, at 6:01 AM, Axel Luttgens wrote:

Le 31 janv. 2010 à 23:34:37, Alan Kimelman a écrit :

Axel,

Your UI script solved the problem of sending an outgoing message that had been generated by Safari's applescript command to email contents.
Thank you for your help.

Along a similar vein, I am having difficulty changing the name of the subject in the outgoing message. The script you suggested, along with other attempts I have made to change outgoing message's subject, have failed to change the name.
The method employed by Safari applescript is to make the subject of the outgoing message the same text or value as the title of the HTML page in Safari . In your script example that would be N.

How might I find a method to change the subject in the outgoing message?

Mmm... I secretly hoped you wouldn't need to do that. ;-)

This is the kind of problematic access to the properties of an "external" outgoing message I alluded to in a previous mail. In fact, it is even surprising that "make new recipient..." works in that case.

Anyway, let's explore the UI items exposed by a window displaying an outgoing message; assuming that such a window is the frontmost in Mail, let's run:

tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
UI elements of front window
--> {..., text field "Objet :" of window "Re: Send outgoing message error from Mail.app" of application process "Mail" of application "System Events", ...}
end tell
end tell

Fine, it seems that the field of interest isn't deeply nested in some complicated window organization. After some experiments (and surprises - for example, the field can't be accessed by name):

tell application "Mail" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
tell front window
tell text field 1
set focused to true
keystroke "Sample message object"
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell

HTH,
Axel