Re A) I think it should be easy to transfer the content from draft to outgoing
message. Don't both use MailRichText?
B) I think you'll be stuck with that problem. As far as I can see you can't
mutate an existing message into an outgoing message.
Steve
On 23 Oct 2012, at 19:05, Cliff Rosson <cliff.ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yea putsing methods(true,true).sort is pretty useful. Below is what I have
> compiled so far.
>
> framework "ScriptingBridge"
>
> @mail = SBApplication.applicationWithBundleIdentifier("com.apple.mail")
> @my_account = @mail.accounts.select { |account| account.name == "MyAccount"
> }.first
> @drafts_folder = @my_account.mailboxes.select { |mailbox| mailbox.name ==
> "Drafts" }.first
> @draft = @drafts_folder.messages.first
>
> def send_message(message)
> props = {}
>
> props['subject'] = message.subject
> props['sender'] = message.sender
> #props['content'] = message.content
>
>
> outgoing_msg = @mail.classForScriptingClass('outgoing
> message').alloc.initWithProperties(props)
> @mail.outgoingMessages.addObject(outgoing_msg)
> recipient = @mail.classForScriptingClass('to
> recipient').alloc.initWithProperties({'address'=>message.recipients.first.address})
> outgoing_msg.toRecipients.addObject(recipient)
>
> outgoing_msg.send
>
> end
> send_message(@draft)
>
> *Note I used instance variables so I could play with these objects in macirb.
> If you were wondering...
>
> The code above works. I get the email. Two issues however.
>
> A)
> I can't figure out how to pull the text contents of my @draft.contents
> message. Presumably because it is a MailRichText class and not a simple
> string object. If only somehow I could attach this contents to the outgoing
> message to preserve the body. What would be even better is to simply create
> my outgoing message with something like InitWithDraft so as to use a drafted
> email already created. I suspect this will require further research from me.
>
> @draft.content
> => <MailRichText @0x1370760: content of MailMessage 0 of MailMailbox 19 of
> MailAccount 0 of application "Mail" (1845)>
>
> B)
> The other issue is since I am not using my existing drafted email creating
> this outgoing message actually makes a NEW draft in my Draft folder. It looks
> like I would have to go and manually delete the draft that I am attempting to
> copy in the method above. I believe there must be an easier way to do this.
> This comes back to what I was talking about above by creating the outgoing
> message from a draft. I guess I'll just have to do some research to figure
> that out.
>
> Thanks Steve for your help!
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Steve Clarke <st...@sclarkes.me.uk> wrote:
> You need to use the ScriptingBridge documentation in Xcode - which means that
> you need to spend some time understanding Objective C. I don't know it well
> but enough to translate examples into Macruby.
>
> I found Matt Aimonetti's book very helpful when I was starting off. It
> doesn't say a lot about ScriptingBridge per se, but in the end SB is just
> another framework you can use from Macruby.
>
> It's worth looking back at the Macruby archives because Matt wrote some very
> helpful stuff about using SB. One tip I recall is that you can see what
> methods are available on an object in Macruby by using
> obj.methods(true,true). This gives tons of stuff but critically it shows
> both the Macruby methods AND the Objective C methods. With SB it's the
> latter group that are of real interest.
>
> Steve
>
> On 23 Oct 2012, at 17:52, Cliff Rosson <cliff.ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perfect! How did you figure all of this out. Are there some documents that
>> explain when it is appropriate to use things like "classForScriptingClass"
>> etc...?
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Steve Clarke <st...@sclarkes.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
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