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rikw

May 22 2007, 10:30 PM

Hi

I'm trying to get the text (from content) out of selected mail messages and paste that text into a textEdit document using applescript.

My attempt gets stuck between the two apps I think?

CODE

tell application "Mail"
	get selected
	set para1 to "content"
end tell

tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	make new document
	open document window
end tell

My next plan was to set the new textEdit document text to para1, but this must transgress OO rules I haven't learned yet so does not compile / run.

Any help appreciated to move this on a stage or two please/
regards and tia
rik

A Nonny Moose

Sep 27 2007, 02:12 AM

Without GUI scripting (which Apple destroyed with OS updates) this is rather hard with AppleScript.

This might be easier with Automator, since there are scripts to grab the mail message, but it will paste the entire message instead of just a part. Vexing indeed.

thePixeler

Dec 5 2007, 09:39 PM

Is this what you need it to do?

CODE

tell application "Mail"
    set selectedMessages to selection
    if (count of selectedMessages) is equal to 0 then
        display alert "No Messages Selected" message "You must select a message first."
    else
        set theMessage to item 1 of selectedMessages
        set theContent to content of theMessage
        tell application "TextEdit"
            activate
            make new document
            tell the front document
                set paragraph 1 to theContent
            end tell
        end tell
    end if
end tell

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