Couple comments to add to a very thorough post!
I have also posted a web page with some of the OE scripts I've ported to
Entourage and verified. Many more to come.
<http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
You can also find some more scripts on Matt Ridley's site:
<http://www.matt-ridley.com/software/applescript/applescript.html>
There is someone working on getting a general repository for Entourage
scripts, but so far that has not shown up. (I think he's trying to get some
official recognition for the site from Microsoft.)
A script that would automatically edit scripts from OE to Entourage is not a
bad idea, but it isn't simple, because scripts are generally compiled, not
plain text. A script for Smile could do it because Smile is scriptable, but
Script Editor is not (go figure), and that is what most people--at least the
people who would really use the script--would have.
If you DO have Smile, you could store this script in Smile's User Scripts
folder and run it from within Smile to fix a single script:
try
set w to window 1
on error
FatalAlert("This script will attempt to convert all occurrences of
�Outlook Express� in the front window into �Microsoft Entourage�.")
return
end try
set update screen of w to false
set store undo of w to true
try
change "Outlook Express" into "Microsoft Entourage" in w
end try
set store undo of w to false
set update screen of w to true
I have worked this into a droplet so you can drop scripts on it and have
them converted (it makes a duplicate and converts the duplicate). Let me
know if you are interested. I'll post it to my web site in my next update, a
couple of days from now (along with several others).
<http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
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> From: andi payn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:58:21 -0800
> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Scripts
>
> Shawn J. Turpin:
>> Do OE Scripts work with Entourage? I couldn't get them to.
>
> I ran into this same question over the weekend, and, since I couldn't find
> an answer anywhere, I decided to try it out.
>
> Here's the deal: The Entourage scripting dictionary seems to be a superset
> of the OE scripting dictionary, which means that all scripts should work
> fine, except for one thing: The scripts are looking for the application
> "Outlook Express."
>
> It is possible to confuse your computer into finding Entourage every time it
> looks for OE, but not easy, and probably not advisable. A better thing to do
> is to edit each script to replace all references to application "Outlook
> Express" with application "Microsoft Entourage" (and maybe update all
> references in prompts and dialogs as well, but that's just up to personal
> preference).
>
> Every script I use worked after I made that change.
>
> So, how do you do this?
>
> Well, you can use the AppleScript Editor (which should be somewhere in Apple
> Extras on your hard drive, or your MacOS CD if you did a minimal install),
> but this is a major pain. Mainly because there's no search and replace--or
> even plain old find....
> %40
> So, a better solution is to download a different script editor and use that
> to edit your scripts.
>
> I use Smile--mainly because it's free, but it's also pretty good. The only
> problem I've ever had with it is that it keeps wanting to revert from
> English to French on me.... If you want Smile, download it at
> http://www.tandb.com.au/smile/.
>
> Main Event Scripter is a little better, but it's $200, which is $200 more
> than Smile (although, from what I remember, you can download a demo, which
> doesn't save, but which lets you drag your completed script over in its
> entirety to a window in Apple Script Editor and save it there...).
>
> FaceSpan is great for building GUIs, but its script editor is barely better
> than Apple's, and it's also $200.
>
> I'm sure there are other possibilities out there, but those are the only
> ones I've tried.
>
> The ideal solution would be to download (or write) a script that took every
> file in Script Menu Items, copied it to Entourage Script Menu Items, then
> did the search-and-replace for you. If nobody else has written such a thing
> and it's needed, I'll volunteer.
>
> Or just wait for each developer to update her own scripts. Most of them seem
> to be on this list and/or the mac-oe-talk list, and announce when they've
> made Entourage versions.
>
>> If not, is
>> there a web site dedicated to Entourage Scripts?
>
> Paul Berkowitz has posted his homepage (which has over 60 scripts on it) to
> this list before: http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28
>
> I wish the list archives were a little more searchable, but try reading
> through the archives for more posts like his....
>
>
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