> On 5/14/04 1:50 PM, "Mark Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I personally know tons of people that
>> are using Entourage and are comfortable creating their own rules. Heck, my
>> mother can even do it. When it comes to writing AppleScripts on the other
>> hand, it's a big step for most people.
on 5/14/04 5:41 PM, Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you know how to run a VCR?
I have had my Tivo so long now that I do not think I do.
> In OS X 10.3 (Jaguar), the Finder is
> AppleScript-recordable. This means that the Script Editor can "watch" you
> peform a task, and automatically create an AppleScript to repeat it on
> command. Some (not all) applications are recordable. I think BBEdit and
> Mailsmith are. Does anyone know if Entourage 2004 is?
>
> Scripts created from recordable applications sometimes require a bit of
> human editing, but this feature can drastically reduce the work required to
> produce really useful scripts. And studying the auto-generated scripts is a
> great learning aid, for people starting out with AppleScript.
>
> There are some great websites (like macscripter.net) with archives of
> hundreds (if not thousands) of AppleScripts for all sorts of Mac
> applications. In many cases, the script you want, or something very close
> to it, has already been written by someone else. You might only need to
> change a line or two. That's how I have made most of the scripts that I
> use.
Julian, I realize that there are AppleScript solutions for just about
anything that a person might want to do with Entourage. My point is that
despite all of the websites containing thousands of helpful scripts, only a
small (a very small) minority of Entourage users ever use them. My guess is
that this list greatly represents the "minority" of users (users that I
would consider "advanced users") therefore it is difficult for many on this
list to understand any reason to expand the capability of rules beyond what
it currently can do. I have not taken a close look yet but can rules
actually do anything new in Entourage 2004?
The day that AppleScript truly works like a VCR (or Tivo), where I can tell
it to record and playback something (and it plays it exactly how I recorded
it 100% of the time) then the average user may be able to utilize it as a
productive tool. The last time I tried to record an AppleScript (about a
year ago) it did not properly capture what I was trying to record.
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