Dear Barry,
I can't thank you enough for your incredibly detailed and informative e-mail
regarding AppleScript. I've always had trouble digging into AppleScript,
admittedly one of my bigger problems is not studying any manuals.
Anyway, I believe I learned more in your one e-mail, then I ever have
anywhere else in a very long time!
While I'm at it, I'll bet that you would be the one to ask: which is the
best book to learn AppleScript?
Once again, thank you very very much for taking the time to explain
AppleScript basics so clearly. It really did open a bunch of doors for me.
Thanks - Dave
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On 12/14/01 3:05 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 14/12/01 9:27 pm, "Domains4Days.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> For incoming mail : I can't seem to find the command to get the "to:" field
>> in a message.... (to put on the clipboard)
>>
>> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
>> set theMessage to the displayed message of the front window
>>
>> set theSender to sender of theMessage
>>
>> set towho to ???account/or/recipient??? of theMessage
>>
>> set the clipboard to theSender & "-" & towho
>>
>> end tell
>
> First place to look is in the Entourage Applescript Dictionary. Get this by
> choosing the menu item 'open dictionary' if you're using Apple's Script
> Editor or Smile.
>
> This shows that an 'incoming Message' is defined as having an element called
> 'recipient' which can be got by index (first recipient, recipient 2, etc) or
> by test (recipients whose x is y).
>
>> Class incoming message : (inherits from message) An incoming e-mail message
>> Plural form:
>> incoming messages
>> Elements:
>> attachment by numeric index, test
>> recipient by numeric index, test
>
> Now, look further on in the dictionary and see how a recipient is defined.
> It says this:
>
>> Class recipient : Message recipient
>> Plural form:
>> recipients
>> Properties:
>> address address -- the recipient's address
>> recipient type to recipient/cc recipient/bcc recipient/newsgroup
>> recipient
>> -- the type of recipient
>
> So, it has two properties � an address (of type �address�, so we need to
> look back at the disctionary again), and the �recipient type� .
>
> Now, tie this in with the �recipient by test� of the Incoming Message class
> and we start to get somewhere:
>
>> recipients of theMess whose recipient type is to recipient
>> -- {recipient 1 of incoming message id 29730}
>
> Note that the value returned is a list! This is because there could be more
> than one �to recipient�!
>
> Now, remember what we said about the addresses? We need to look back into
> the dictionary to see how the �address� class is defined:
>
>> Class address : An e-mail message address
>> Plural form:
>> addresses
>> Properties:
>> display name Unicode text -- the name used for display
>> address string -- the e-mail address
>
> Here it can get a little confusing. CLASS address has a property called
> �address� that is of type string. The authors of Entourage could possibly
> have chosen a better phrase here to make thingsd a little clearer (�address
> string� or �email address�?), but still, we have to work with what we�ve
> got.
>
> Now,�recipients of theMess whose recipient type is to recipient� got us a
> reference to a list of recipients ({recipient 1 of incoming message id
> 29730}). We can ask for their addresses, which will get us the entire
> record:
>
>> address of (recipients of theMess whose recipient type is to recipient)
>> -- {{address:"[EMAIL PROTECTED]", display name:"Entourage
>> mac Talk"}}
>
> Or, you can ask for the bit you want:
>
>> address of address of (recipients of theMess whose recipient type is to
>> recipient)
>> -- {"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"}
>>
>> Display name of address of (recipients of theMess whose recipient type is to
>> recipient)
>> -- {"Entourage mac Talk"}
>
> This is the information you were after! Remember that it is still in list
> form and there could be more than one. There could also be less than one!
> (messages without a �to� recipient are valid!), so some testing will prevent
> a script error when you try to get properties of recipients that are not
> present.
>
> I hope this helps you get the information you wanted for your script and
> also to learn how to interpret the AS dictionaries. Digging in the
> dictionary can be the best way to learn just what can be done in an
> application. That of course, relies on the dictionary being well written.
> Fortunately, with just one or two small exceptions, the Entourage dictionary
> is one of the best in existence, and is well worth perusing.
> HTH!
>
--
Thanks,
RevDave
http: //www.Domains4Days.com
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