On 6/4/02 8:25 pm, "Julian Vrieslander"  wrote:

> On 4/3/02 1:45 PM, Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote:
> 
>> On or near 3/31/02 8:40 PM, Julian Vrieslander at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> observed:
>> 
>>> But I am still curious to know if there is a way to set
>>> the text document creator type within Entourage.
>> 
>> Not via Entourage, but with an AppleScript, yes. This script would save the
>> selected message and change the creator type to BBEdit:
>> 
>> tell application "Microsoft Entourage 1822"
>>    try
>>        set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
>>    on error
>>        return
>>    end try
>>    set newName to choose file name with prompt "Save message where?"
>>    save theMsg in newName
>>    set thePath to newName as text
>>    display dialog thePath & " saved."
>> end tell
>> tell application "Finder" to set the creator type of newName to "R*ch"
> 
> Thanks, Allen.  The script is clear enough for me to understand.  But I'm
> curious about one item.  Is there any significance for the "1822" in the
> first tell statement?  Or did you just choose this to pick out one
> particular build of Entourage?
> 
> --
> Julian Vrieslander <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 

That must be because Allen has renamed his application to "Microsoft
Entourage 1822" for some reason. Either that, or somebody did it for him
<g>.

-- 
Barry Wainwright
<http://www.barryw.net/>


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