>> I just noticed something. Whenever I'm in a custom view in the address book >> and run the following script, 'rage X bounces around from view to view >> seemingly randomly until it settles with the mail folder list on the left >> and "Address Book Views" in the right pane. Very weird. >> >> Any ideas why? Here's the script: >> >> tell application "Microsoft Entourage" >> open main window >> set displayed feature of main window to in box folder >> end tell >> >> TIA. >> > In Entourage X, 'main window' is simply the frontmost browser window. If you > have no browser windows open at all , 'open' will still open one (very > handy, since usually referring to a non-existent object will error.) If > there are already one or more browser windows open, 'open' will act like > 'select', bringing the frontmost browser to the very front (i.e. displacing > other windows such as message windows or open groups, contacts, etc.). > Otherwise it won't do anything: it doesn't bring a browser displaying Mail > in front of one displaying Address Book, for example.
[stuff cut out] > 'browser window' class, and its property 'displayed area' are new features > in Entourage X. They are extremely useful: otherwise you could never set the > main window to show calendar, tasks list, or notes list. Now we just need > calendar area windows to allow displayed features of 'month view','week > view' etc. , which you still can't do, and maybe 'incomplete view' , etc. as > displayed feature of tasks area windows too. Thanks, Paul, that did it. I'm still a little curious as to why the script didn't just error out, though. I'm trying to figure out what algorithms they could be using that would behave like that in a case like this. Anyway, thanks again. - B -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:Entourage-Talk-Off@;lists.letterrip.com> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
