On Sunday, 22 May 2005, Christian Roth, [EMAIL PROTECTED], thoughtfully composed the following:
>I'm struggling now already for hours with something I thought should be >really easy: > >How do I copy the body text of a message that is selected in PowerMail's >message browser to the system's clipboard? > >This does not work: > >tell application "PowerMail" > activate > set msg to the first message of current messages > set theText to the content of msg > set the clipboard to (theText as string) >end tell I did a little more testing, and I figured out (which I really should have done sooner) that you need to put parentheses around the property, e.g: set msg to the 1st item of (current messages) HTH more, Marcus -- Marcus Jarrett, Adelaide, South Australia. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts. -Bertrand Russell

