On 6 Dec 2013, at 10:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote (with possible
deletions):
On 6 Dec 2013, at 9:01, Torsten Grust wrote:
I too use BusyCal and would love to create calendar entries from with
MailMate.
However, as fas as I can tell (I do hope somebody proves me wrong),
BusyCal
does not have an AppleScript dictionary, effectively rendering it
non-scriptable.
That's a siginifcant obstacle to a tight integration with MailMate
(with any
other application, for that matter).
Busycal has an alternative to using AppleScript based on a custom URL
scheme (similar to what is often done on iOS and what MailMate does
for the `mailto:` URL scheme):
https://support.busymac.com/blog/23829-busycal-url-handler
Ah, yes. That's a good entry point. Thanks for the pointer.
Now, I'm not sure exactly how you want this to work, but it's
certainly possible to create a command which based on the currently
selected message (or selected text in the message) can create an event
in BusyCal/iCal/Fantastical (3 more bundles to be created).
How would a command receive the currently *selected* text (as opposed to
the entire
message text)? In the current commands, a mechanism like
environment = 'MM_FROM=${from} ...'
makes the `From:` address available in the environment. Would the
selected text
be communicated in a similar fashion?
The main problem, of course, is to convert text to event data. I could
perhaps implement a feature where MailMate can be told to analyze the
message (or selected text) with the data detectors in Mac OS X (10.7+)
before calling the external script. This could help find dates,
addresses, and phone numbers I believe. (Making no promises, just
thinking out loud.)
Well, BusyCal as well as Fantastical come with quite sophisticated date
parsers
that are exposed via the URL scheme and AppleScript, respectively. It
could be an
option to simply rely on these (for now).
Cheers,
--Torsten
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| Torsten "Teggy" Grust
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