Passing TextEdit value into AppleScript

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1

Hi, guys,

I used to use this function before but I totally forgot how to do it. I need to pass the value of the TextEdit field into the applescript.

I need to pass the recipient’s name, email address and the subject into the following AppleScript. Thank you in advance.

Val


set recipientName to "WhiteHat"
set recipientAddress to "someemail@here.com"
set theSubject to "Type your subject here!"
set theContent to "Type your message content here!"

tell application "Mail"

        ##Create the message
        set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, content:theContent, visible:true}

        ##Set a recipient
        tell theMessage
                make new to recipient with properties {name:recipientName, address:recipientAddress}

                ##Send the Message
                send

        end tell
end tell
2

What have you tried that hasn’t worked?

By the way, you can create an email without using AppleScript that goes to the user’s default mail client using a well formatted ShowURL and a mailto: link. It won’t auto-send, but you shouldn’t auto-send from an email client that’s not yours anyway - the user could be using a different email account than they want you to send with.

3

you need to wrap the entire script in an “on run” handler
and you pass it a bunch of arguments for the various bits

see http://developer.xojo.com/applescripts

4

Hi, Norman,

Thank you for the reply. I have the following XOJO app to practice passing the variables. In the main window in XOJO I have two TextFields and a PushButton.

I have the following code in the PushButton action:


saytextnew(TextField1.Text, TextField2.Text)

In the AppleScript I have the following script


on run {TextField1Text, TextField2Text}
	
	say TextField1Text
	
	delay 2
	
	say TextField2Text
	
	
end run

I do not know why but when the app is run it says the message in the TextField1 two times and it ignores the argument passed from the TextField2.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Thank you and all others for help.

Val

5

Can you post an example?

6

try this
it works here

http://great-white-software.com/miscellaneous/applescript.zip