Hello everyone. Hoping to catch a late-nighter like myself... Caveat emptor: I am not a scripting wizard. I wish, on many days, to be able to write E applescript like PB and AW on this list, but, alas... ;)
Mostly I can search for and find a script to do what I want, or that I can follow enough to modify. In this case, after 2 days of searching, I can't find such a beast. Sometimes, my idea is so smashing that I just can't imagine not being able to do it. Which is, in fact, part of the beauty of AS. So, I thought I would be seeking scripting assistance, but now I might just as well be making a script request. Although, I'd really like to be able to finish this puppy on my own, I'd rather have a functioning script! Here's what I have been trying do (for far longer than is prudent <8-)~ I call my script project: Reply Into When I reply to some lists, I like to reference more than one person's previous post, so I have to first hit reply, then go back to another message, copy some text, then go back to the newly started reply, paste as quotation, and then repeat this process as many times as needed. This produces a reply that might look like: On 11/10/02 This Person (thisperson @ here.com) said: > blah blah blah blah And On 11/09/02 That Person (thatperson @ there.com) said: > here we go 'round the mulberry bush Selecting some text and replying already does the first part, and leaves my cursor at the bottom of the page, after the reply-inserted text (in this case, after the last 'blah'). What I can not get to happen via AS is to have my reply script insert the selected text into the bottom of the already open message, using the same Attribution format from my settings, or even a script-concocted attribution to add something like "and also, " I had much trouble finding the open window via AS, but after an hour with the Entourage AS guide, I've got that mostly working (not pretty ;). I just loop through windows until I find the first message that is an outgoing message. LIMITATION to my method: If I have more than one open outgoing message, well, I'm done for. My 'thinking' was that: if I started the whole process with a Reply-To script instead of E's reply, THEN I could actually know a window number for the newly created outgoing message, and I could reference that number in subsequent scripts. Somewhere around 10PM EST, I abandoned that effort upon realizing that I had also, at one point in my life, envisioned building an all-cheese car. If anyone can offer a simple method to: a) find my open outgoing message window more elegantly and less "accidentally" (i.e., by starting the whole process off with a reply script, so the window can be directly referenced later) b) force my AS-generated 2nd, 3rd, etc. replies into the already open message ...I would be very grateful, and I'd be able to give up my cheese-mobile dreams completely. I would be happy to offer my finished script to the list and others, as I think it's a very useful script idea that I wasn't able to find already out there. Thanks very much for any ideas, pointers, references and the like. Over and out, Gary -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
