You can do it by a keystroke already: shift-command-= . Or click the "A" button in the message's Title toolbar. Again, this should be doable with GUI scripting, which would end up saving you a few keypresses by doing it all in one script, sure.That's simple to do with GUI scripting, but why would you need a script? Your monitor/screen does change its size from day to day. You would need to toggle the left Folder column open and shut to navigate mail vs. reading it in wider Preview Pane, but why do you think a script would help? All you have to do is click the button? Do you mean in order to provide it with a Keyboard shortcut? OK, but you can do that without a script too (in Panther). Go to System Preferences/Keyboard and Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts. Add Entourage (not "Microsoft Entourage") under "Application Keyboard Shortcuts" and add a shortcut for "Folders List". It will only work when the main window is in the front, and the same would be true for a GUI script.
The reason for the script is (I quote from the above with emphasis added) hides “the folder list on the left and increases the font size of the preview pane for use on small monitors.”
The way it would work is this – messages appear in 9 or 10 point type when there are 3 panes open. When the script hides the folder list, there are now only 2 columns on screen so there is more room and the messages could be displayed in size 12 or larger point type. There are now only 2 panes, so there is now more room. It is this extra step of changing the Font Size after hiding the folder list on the left that makes this better done by a script (called by a keystroke, of course).
However: I've been experimenting, and unfortunately (and not entirely unexpectedly), the GUI script is totally unreliable. Sometimes it toggles the Folders List On or Off, and sometimes it doesn't. No idea why. On the other hand, it always adjusts the font size - so sometimes (every second time. more or less) it gets out of phase, increasing font size when reducing preview pane (opening Folders List) instead of vice versa. I think you'd better forget this.
Can preferences be scripted? What say?
No. They cannot.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
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