On 5/2/02 9:11 PM, "Mr Tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the folder list panel so gormless? > > If the mail folder that was selected when Entourage X last quit was further > than about a third of the way down the folder list, next time I launch > Entourage the whole panel is scrolled up so that half of it's contents are > hidden from view. Little things like that really annoy. > > AppleScript can spread balm on this irritation by setting the displayed > content of the window to a folder higher up the list as part of a startup > schedule, but it still looks a bit klutzy. > > The plus side is that scripting the folder that's displayed at startup has > prompted me to go a little further and check through my mail folders in > order of precedence, displaying the first one that has unread content. Nice. > > On a side note, my first approach was to try changing the displayed folder > in a quit shedule. No dice. The browser window gets closed before the script > runs, and the displayed content cannot be set. Even the supremely kludgy > tactic of re-opening the browser window first didn't cut it. Entourage went > through the motions, but next time it started up, the displayed folder was > the one from before the script ran. > > Why that way round? My gut feeling is that it would make more sense if quit > shedules were run before windows were closed and states saved. > > > Cordially, > > Mr Tea > Ditto, thanks. It's aggravating, since several of my folders that I use most often are at the bottom of my list, but Inbox is always at the top, so when I close and reopen, the list is scrolled down and Inbox is not visible. Nothing to get really upset about, but still annoying. -- Ken Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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