Hi!
I thought I’d do a quick Hylafax Client using Applescript. It basically works but it needs some improvements in the UI:
How do I implement a panel to pick the fax number(s) from Address Book.app? I was thinking of something like the address picker inside Mail.app.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Thorsten
Well, I finally managed to work out something that can pull that info. If a person has two emails, they are in the list for both of them. You can select multiple emails from the list.
set emailSelectList to {}
tell application "Address Book"
set personIDList to (id of people) -- get a list of all the IDs
repeat with onePersonID in personIDList
try
-- now, get a list of this person's email addresses
set emailList to value of emails of person id onePersonID
set personName to name of person id onePersonID
repeat with oneEmail in emailList
-- for each address, put the name and address in the list we're building
copy """ & personName & "" " & "<" & oneEmail & ">" to end of emailSelectList
end repeat
on error errMsg number errNum
return errMsg
end try
end repeat
end tell
-- you could make this allow only one choice, have a prompt etc
-- look in the Standard Additions dictionary for more info on 'choose from list'
set chosenEmailList to choose from list emailSelectList
return chosenEmailList
Oh, here’s an update. this one actually allows multiple selections, and then puts the chosen address(es) in the To field of the front message in Eudora. If that message already has some recipients, it makes a new message. Modify to fit your heart’s content. 
Oh, it would probably be a good idea to sort this thing in some way. I’d recommend looping over each id, getting the name, and making a new id list in last,first sorted order. Probably a quick-sort routine would work well. Search the archives for a quick-sort routine - I’ve got to get back to work.
set emailSelectList to {}
tell application "Address Book"
set personIDList to (id of people) -- get a list of all the IDs
repeat with onePersonID in personIDList
try
-- now, get a list of this person's email addresses
set emailList to value of emails of person id onePersonID
set personName to name of person id onePersonID
repeat with oneEmail in emailList
-- for each address, put the name and address in the list we're building
copy """ & personName & "" " & "<" & oneEmail & ">" to end of emailSelectList
end repeat
on error errMsg number errNum
return errMsg
end try
end repeat
end tell
-- you could make this allow only one choice, have a prompt etc
-- look in the Standard Additions dictionary for more info on 'choose from list'
set chosenEmailList to choose from list emailSelectList with prompt "Choose recipient(s):" with multiple selections allowed
log chosenEmailList
tell application "Eudora"
activate
if (field "To:" of message 0) is not equal to "To: " then
make new message at end of mailbox "Out"
end if
set field "To:" of message 0 to my unParseChars(chosenEmailList, ", ")
end tell
on unParseChars(thisList, newDelim)
-- version 1.2, Daniel A. Shockley, http://www.danshockley.com
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the {newDelim as string}
set the unparsedText to thisList as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
return unparsedText
on error errMsg number errNum
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end try
error "ERROR: unParseChars() handler: " & errMsg number errNum
end try
end unParseChars
OK. Final post by me for now. I looked up a sort handler (from the ScriptBuilders part of macscripter.net), and modified how the email list is built. I get the names as last, first and also had to error-trap for missing first/last anmes, since Address Book doesn’t even SET variables if the value is missing. Annoying, non-standard behavior. Anyway, with that done, I’m only sorting the actual list of names and emails, rather than the whole AB first.
set emailSelectList to {}
tell application "Address Book"
set personIDList to (id of people) -- get a list of all the IDs
repeat with onePersonID in personIDList
try
-- now, get a list of this person's email addresses
set emailList to value of emails of person id onePersonID
set personLastName to last name of person id onePersonID
set personFirstName to first name of person id onePersonID
-- need to error-trap, since rather than returning "", empty values
-- don't even bother to set the variable to ANYTHING
try
set personName to """ & personLastName & ", " & personFirstName & """
on error errMsg
try
set personName to """ & personLastName & """
on error errMsg
try
set personName to """ & personFirstName & """
on error errMsg
set personName to ""
end try
end try
end try
repeat with oneEmail in emailList
-- for each address, put the name and address in the list we're building
copy personName & " " & "<" & oneEmail & ">" to end of emailSelectList
end repeat
on error errMsg number errNum
return errMsg
end try
end repeat
end tell
set emailSelectList to shellsort(emailSelectList)
-- you could make this allow only one choice, have a prompt etc
-- look in the Standard Additions dictionary for more info on 'choose from list'
set chosenEmailList to choose from list emailSelectList with prompt "Choose recipient(s):" with multiple selections allowed
--log chosenEmailList
tell application "Eudora"
activate
if (field "To:" of message 0) is not equal to "To: " then
make new message at end of mailbox "Out"
end if
set field "To:" of message 0 to my unParseChars(chosenEmailList, ", ")
end tell
on unParseChars(thisList, newDelim)
-- version 1.2, Daniel A. Shockley, http://www.danshockley.com
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the {newDelim as string}
set the unparsedText to thisList as string
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
return unparsedText
on error errMsg number errNum
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims
end try
error "ERROR: unParseChars() handler: " & errMsg number errNum
end try
end unParseChars
to shellsort(aList)
(*
from macscripter.net - ScriptBuilders
ShellSort 1.0 - simplified somewhat
Freeware | 3.1.01 | Script #480
Author: Dave Vasilevsky, mdmv@musica.mcgill.ca
*)
copy {aList, 0, 0, aList's length} to {newList, Swaps, Comps, theLength}
set Gap to theLength
repeat while Gap is greater than 1
set {Gap, Flag} to {Gap div 2, true}
repeat while Flag is true
set Flag to false
repeat with Index1 from 1 to (theLength - Gap)
set {Index2, Comps} to {Index1 + Gap, Comps + 1}
--if Comps mod 1000 is 0 then log Comps
if newList's item Index1 > newList's item Index2 then
set {Swaps, newList's item Index1, newList's item Index2, Flag} ¬
to {Swaps + 1, newList's item Index2, newList's item Index1, true}
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
return newList
end shellsort