On 6/28/2006 12:56 PM, "Barry Wainwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You are on the right lines.
>
> If you examine the applescript dictionary of Entourage, you will get the
> clues you need.
>
> "address of (recipients of theMessage whose recipient type is to recipient)"
> is exactly the right place to start. Looking at the dictionary entry for a
> message, you can see that it has an element called "recipient". This is what
> you get with your line above. The class definition (again, in the
> dictionary) for a recipient shows it has two properties: Address and
> Recipient type. You used 'recipient type' to get the list of addresses of
> the 'to recipients'.
>
> Now, when your script line gets the 'address of recipient' what it gets is
> defined (in the recipient dictionary entry) as a data type of class
> 'address'. Dig a bit deeper in the dictionary and you see that, in turn, a
> data class of address contains two more properties: 'address' and 'display
> name'. The first of these is defined as a string, the latter as Unicode
> Text.
>
> So, what contains the actual email address is:
>
> Address of address of (recipients of theMessage whose recipient type is to
> recipient)
>
> Now, put it all together....
>
> If you want both the display name and the email address of the recipients,
> do it with this:
>
> tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
> set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
> set {whoto, theName} to {address, display name} of address of ¬
> (recipients of theMessage whose recipient type is to recipient)
> end tell
>
> This will give you two lists: theName contains a list of the display names
> of all the to recipients, whoto contains a list of all the email addresses.
Wow Barry - Thank you so much for this incredibly detailed - educational
explanation!!!
It worked perfectly and I learned so much!
BTW: I have been wanting this small additional feature for a long time - so
thanks again!
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Thanks - RevDave
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