On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Beatrice Hopkinson wrote:
Forgive my ignorance but I gather Applescripts is a generic term for
various
applications - am I right in thinking its a program for accepting text
from
Email messages or is there more to it ?
AppleScript is a "user friendly" programming language that Apple uses
to write automated tasks to work with various programs (that support
it). I put User Friendly in quotes because it was supposed to be
such, but as it turns out, is almost anything but due to poor
following of the syntax rules by most programmers when they add
applescript support to their applications. Thus, the language is only
partially standard, and the syntax used in one program may very well
not work in another.
In Emailer, there is a Scripts menu. Everything in there is an
Applescript that Emailer can run. Emailer is very scriptable and thus
can have quite a few abilities added to it.
Re the Filemaker Pro format - I used that years ago for my
addresses for
my Christmas Card list. I hated trying to coordinate the data file
with
the label
file and although I still use it once a year it seemed rather clutsy
compared with
the smooth operation of software nowadays...thinking of CE of
course :)
Sounds like you may have had a less than ideal database setup.
Keeping track of a list of people and printing labels for those
people is one of the easiest things to do with FileMaker. FileMaker
even has standard Avery label layouts preprogrammed, so all you have
to do is pick the label number that matches the ones you are using.
Of course, if the database wasn't designed well in the first place,
it can make any task using it difficult. Also, depending on the
version of FileMaker you are using, it can take more or less manual
work to set these things up (v1 was a mess, v2 not much better, v3 is
where things really started to take off when they took FileMaker
relational, and then v6 (or maybe it was 7) made another huge leap
when they started allowing multiple tables in a single database...
v8.5 that they are up to now is just downright friendly)
-chris
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