Thanks for your ongoing feedback and encouragement, Vic. I'll reflect on how I can keep improving that script. If you have other wishes for Outlook, let me know about them, too.
Jamal On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Vic Beckley wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:31:04 -0500 > From: Vic Beckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Updated Read Mail package > > Jamal, > > You are definitely on the right track with this. It works great when > reading from the message list. The only problem I see is that when you > reply to a message from the list it fires and tries to read the message. > You just have to hit a key and go back to the top to start typing. > > I read my mail using a different scenario and I don't know if you can > automate it or not. I press enter on the oldest message. This is no > problem, it will be read. Then, instead of going back to the message list, > I just press CTRL-D to delete the message I read and the next oldest message > comes into focus. Is there any way you could tell that and read it > automatically? This is in Outlook 2007. Do you think you might be able to > incorporate a feature like this? > > I will use it the way it is now, though. Right now I have CTRL-D set up to > read the field data when the new message comes up and because of timing this > is not very accurate. > > Thanks for another good script. > > Vic > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 8:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Updated Read Mail package > > Version 1.1 adds support for the Microsoft Word editing control, and thus, > Outlook 2007. Revised documentation is below. > > Jamal > > When focus is on a list of mail messages, press Enter to open one and > automatically start a Read to End. The script says "reading" to indicate > this behavior has been invoked. It depends on the following conditions: > (1) the prior control type is a ListBox or ListView; (2) the next control > is either browse mode, a multiline, read-only RichEdit, or a Microsoft > Word edit control (the _WwG class, used by Outlook). > > This behavior also works in contexts besides reading mail, though that is > the primary motivation for the sscript. If you have heard enough of a mail > message, remember to press a key to stop the Read-to-End process, e.g., > the Control key, before pressing another key, e.g., Escape to return to > the list of messages. > > The script tries to temporarily suppress speech from verbosity settings > when a message window opens. Due to timing issues, this only works > sometimes. The intent is for email header information, such as the > subject and sender, to be read from the list, and the body to be read if > the message is opened. >
