>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.
Wouldn't you know - yet another Emailer capability!
>
>> 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.
Yes, in theory - but somehow it never works out that way - whether
its
due to variances in the feed of the printer or whatever. I've had a
number of
people try this and all have problems matching the label to the printer.
Another
problem is the number of lines in an address - with European addresses
and/or
Corporations you find they are too long and spill over the label area, or
miss
out bits of the address.
>
>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)
Its version 7 that I have. What I find fiddly is setting up the 'Field'
and I have
no idea how to program the action which was done for me by a skilled
friend many
years ago. I generally use the templates he programmed for me. We've
also tried
using Avery Label templates in Mac Word (?) and again they are fiddly and
time
consuming to set up. One also has to be careful about the type of labels
you buy
some have spaces between the labels and others butt up against each
other.
Another thing I don't like is in the 'Field' setup you can overlap the
fields and it will
still work - sometimes (depending upon the address length) and I find
that is not
definitive enough for me. I do a lot of badges and use Avery templates
and here
again it depends on the length of the name as to how it works out. Maybe
there's a
trick to this which I guess I havn't cottoned on to yet :(
Bea
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