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Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?
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Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?


  • Subject: Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?
  • From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:47:39 -0800

Leonard Budney wrote:
On 1/16/06, Andrew Farmer <email@hidden> wrote:

If you look at the contents of a dragged Mail message in Clipboard Viewer, you'll note that the primary data type is "MV Super-secret message transfer pasteboard type". This sort of suggests to me that you aren't really supposed to do this...

Call me an arrogant UNIX guy, but "aren't really supposed to" isn't actually in my vocabulary. :-)


Seriously, if Mail.app doesn't support such a feature, I daresay Mail.app has a bug. I'm willing to work around the bug, either using an unpublished interface, or by creating a plugin to provide the functionality I need, but of course I'd much rather that Apple fix the bug...

...and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel, if this problem has already been solved.
Just be aware that a future OS update (whether via Software Update or a future 10.x) will probably break this code.
Then when your app crashes, users won't blame Apple for having "unpublished interfaces" (the typical term is SPI). They'll blame the app that's crashing. And they won't give you a free pass because you're a UNIX geek :)
Do what you've gotta do... but I'm just sayin'.


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