On 11/4/00 8:40 PM, "Dan Crevier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And Email Addresses for a contact returns a list of simple strings giving
>> the e-mail addresses, with no way to find out which are associated with
>> "Work" and which with "Home" -- associations that are settable in the GUI.
>
> I added this sort of support to Emailer 2.0v3, so it's possible. The
> problem is that I don't think I can do it without changing the dictionary in
> a way that won't break old scripts. It's something we should fix though.
Yes, it would be much better. We can adapt the old scripts when the time
comes. You only just added the 'home' and 'work' (not 'business?) default
properties for postal address, which work well once you get the hang of it.
Something similar as a property of the element 'email address' (unrelated to
the default email address property of contact) is what's needed, I think.
> AppleScript doesn't always get the highest priority internally since, but we
> do try to get things right.
<snip>
> There's a styled
> text type, but it's not something you can manipulate from AppleScript.
> Actually, support for the full text suite would solve this, but that is a
> huge amount of work which isn't likely to happen soon.
That would be the way to "get things right", however.
> I'm open to any other suggestions.
(Tim wrote:)
>> How about adding an option "as html" to the get and set text verbs? It is
>> easy enough to parse html, and this would solve a lot of other problems to,
>> regarding creating html messages.
>
> And, "as unicode html", of course. :-) This isn't totally easy though. You
> go from being able to just take text & more text to having to parse out the
> </body> tag and quote any text you want to insert ( & -> &, etc), and
> then stick it back it. Is this something people would really do?
I don't think so, not many anyhow. I don't think this would be such a great
solution. Especially if it too would be a lot of work, I'd much prefer to
see full support for the text suite further down the road.
> So, please keep the feedback coming! I love to see all the great stuff
> everyone is doing with AppleScript to customize the way they use Entourage,
> and hope we can help facilitate more cool stuff in the future.
It's great what you've done already. Thanks for the enthusiastic approach to
AppleScript (even if the result for me is that I don't get much sleep any
more), and looking forward to that "in the future".
--
Paul
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