Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread David Griffith
I guess I should set this up as a project for myself but I know nothing about Applescripts. One of the really frustrating things for me is the lack of a page down or up command which can work in Mail Messages. This means that in really long text email messages, for example in a mail digest

Re: Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Did you try a three finger swipe up and down when interacted with the e-mail content? Jürgen Am 27.02.2015 um 13:59 schrieb David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com: I guess I should set this up as a project for myself but I know nothing about Applescripts. One of the really frustrating

Re: Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread David Griffith
I do not routinely use trackpad commander but unless I am mistaken I understand this command to be a command to read a page? Actually the way I use my mac I normally sit about 10feet away from it in an armchair with headphones and keyboard and never use a trackpad so I will have to try it out

Re: Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, there might be issues with Rich Text / HTML e-mails. But in general you would want to use the text object of the current object. basically if you change the text I know that the Text object provides paragraph and sentence access, but I am not sure about line numbers. If you bring up the