Thanks Allen! Your HTML REPLY script is quite handy! i send text
always, by default, but there are occasions that I want to preserve the
html that has been sent to me when I reply.
-Laurie
On 3/9/01 7:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] showcased their stellar typing and
language skills in this message:
>These two are short enough to mail to the list. I did both today. I can't
>imagine why I never did them before, and I think both will become very
>useful for me. Hope they will for you. I will post later to my site and to
>AppleScript Central.
>
>DUMB CALCULATOR --
>
>Ever want to just sum up a few numbers or do some simple math in the middle
>of a mail message? "How much is 12.37 + 13.75 + 111.50? What percentage is
>243/3998?" Now, if you can type out the formula, you can get the answer. The
>above two problems, for instance, yield, respectively: 137.62 and
>6.07803901951%. Of course you can truncate or round that last answer to 6%
>or 6.1%. How does it work?
>
>Just type out the formula you want calculated. The percentage problem I
>typed in as "243/3998 * 100", multiplying by 100 to get percentage value
>rather than the decimal number. You can even use math functions that
>AppleScript knows about, like "mod" and "div" to determin a remainder, or an
>integer result of division.
>
>10 mod 3 = 1
>10 div 3 = 3
>
>Use parentheses to control the order of evaluation:
>
>10 * (33 + 48) = 810
>10 * 33 + 48 = 378
>
>What you are doing is passing the string you type to AppleScript where it is
>run as a script, which evaluates the expression. If you mis-type it, you
>will get a "Script error." The result is displayed in a dialog box and also
>placed on the clipboard, from whence you can paste it anywhere.
>
>--Dumb Calculator script
>--Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>set snip to ""
>try
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> set snip to the selection of (the front window)
> end tell
> if snip is "" then error "Nothing selected."
>on error theErr
> display dialog theErr
> return
>end try
>display dialog ¬
> "Calculates result of formula selected in a text window. Formula found:
>" & snip ¬
> & return & ¬
> "Answer will be displayed and also placed on the clipboard." buttons
>{"Abort", "Proceed"} default button "Proceed"
>if button returned of result is "Abort" then return
>try
> set answer to (run script snip)
>on error theErr
> display dialog theErr
> return
>end try
>display dialog "" & snip & " = " & answer
>set the clipboard to answer as text
>
>--end of script
>
>HTML REPLY
>==========
>
>Perhaps, like me, you have set Entourage to always use plain text for the
>mail format. (If you have not, why not?) Of course, you can always begin a
>message and then click the little "ab/ab" button near the upper left corner
>of the message area to switch to HTML. However there is one problem:
>
>What if someone sends you a message formatted as HTML, and you want to
>respond to it using HTML? If you just use Reply, your reply (and the quoted
>message) show up as plain text, and any formatting is lost. So, I wrote
>"HTML Reply." This simple script opens a reply to an HTML message,
>preserving all the HTML formatting:
>
>--HTML Reply
>--Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>tell application "Microsoft Entourage" --
> set currentMessages to the current messages --
> repeat with theMsg in the currentMessages --
> my ProcessMsg(theMsg) --
> end repeat --
>end tell --
>
>on ProcessMsg(theMsg) --
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" --
> reply to theMsg attribution style short attribution with html text
> end tell --
>end ProcessMsg --
>
>--
>Peace,
>Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson
>A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
>Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage:
><http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/>
>
>
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