Hello Marck,
Monday, January 10, 2000, 6:33:03 PM, you wrote:
SI>> The %TOFNAME macro seems to be buggy.
<snip>
SI>> Now when using %TOFNAME in a template, The Bat! invariably inserts the
SI>> first string of the "Display name as" field (Address Book - Properties
SI>> for the recipient) instead of the contents of the "First name" field.
SI>> Can anybody confirm this?
Marck D. Pearlstone> No, but that is because the premise is incorrect.
Please correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know, the address book
is the *source* repository for names.
It has a First Name field, a Last Name field, and a Display Name As field.
So why is inserting the *wrong* part of the name a feature and not a
bug?
Marck D. Pearlstone> Once the address is
Marck D. Pearlstone> in the To: field, TB no longer has any reference to which address
book
Marck D. Pearlstone> entry it came from. It extracts the %TOFNAME as the
sequence of
Marck D. Pearlstone> characters preceding the first space in the RealName string
part of
Marck D. Pearlstone> the To: field.
Then The Bat! could just as well provide a single field (RealName) for the entire
name since it doesn't allow me to select the part that I want.
Marck D. Pearlstone> TB is only doing that which it has been asked to do.
No.
If it offers a macro for first name and last name then it *should* use
the proper fields of the address book to compose the name.
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Best regards,
István mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using The Bat! 1.38e under Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998
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