In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) wrote:
> Chris, would it be fun/possible to convert all that applescript to perl?
Yep. Note that currently you cannot "tell" an object in Mac::Glue, but no
big deal; that is just syntactic sugar. You'll see that apart from that, it
is basically a line-by-line translation of syntax, using the same words but
in Perl.
use Mac::Glue ':all';
my $mail = new Mac::Glue 'Mail';
my $msg = $mail->make( new => 'outgoing message' );
$mail->set( $mail->prop( visible => $msg ), to => gTrue() );
my $last_char = $mail->obj( character => gLast(), of => content => $msg );
$mail->make(
new => 'attachment',
at => location( after => $last_char ),
with_properties => {
file_name => "/etc/motd"
}
);
$mail->activate;
The most difficult thing is to know what it means, for example, to tell
newMessage to set visible to true. In this case, it means the same as set
visible of newMessage to true, where visible is a property, so we
prop(visible => $msg), to => gTrue(). Yay fun.
See similar fun with the location insertion record for "after last character
of content of message" (the extra "of" in the perl is because content is a
property and not an object ... at some point I want to get rid of that extra
verbiage, which should be possible).
See the Mac::Glue POD for more details.
Of course, this currently works only in MacPerl (but the script above does,
in fact, work from MacPerl in Classic to control Mail.app). But as noted
before, I am working to finish porting it all to work under Mac OS X, and
most of the pieces are in place, I just need to find the time to finish it
all up. Before summer. :)
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