How do I tell if particular mailbox is selected?

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#1

G’day.

I need to find a way of checking whether a particular mailbox in Mail is selected or not.

I’ve managed to get the selected boxes, but it’s not a list, nor can it be changed to a list.

My script so far …


set myMailbox to "* items to shift"

tell application "Mail"
	activate
	set EveryMailboxList to mailboxes
	set SelectedBoxes to (selected mailboxes of message viewers)
	repeat with y in SelectedBoxes
		beep
		display dialog number of items of SelectedBoxes -- This is only seen as one item
		if myMailbox is in y then
			beep
		end if
	end repeat
end tell

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#2

Hi Santa,

your line

set SelectedBoxes to (selected mailboxes of message viewers)

results a list in a list, because you are referecing all message viewers
so you need a second repeat loop to parse the items of each message viewer.
And I recommend to compare explicitly the name of the mailbox,

Edit: something like this


set myMailbox to "* items to shift"

tell application "Mail"
	-- activate -- actually not needed
	set EveryMailboxList to mailboxes
	set SelectedBoxes to {}
	repeat with i in (get selected mailboxes of message viewers)
		repeat with j in contents of i
			set end of SelectedBoxes to (get name of j)
		end repeat
	end repeat
	beep
	display dialog (count SelectedBoxes) -- This is only seen as one item
	if myMailbox is in SelectedBoxes then
		beep
	end if
end tell
#3

G’day Stefan

Thanks for that, now I just need to fix a very large hassle that I’ve struck running my script under Leopard, that didn’t seem to occur under Tiger.

See my other post if you want a real challenge! (grin)

All the best

Santa