[macrophyllum]

OK, I almost have this figured out. I want my application to send an email using Applescript that has a pdf file as an attachment. I am providing the attachment path as a static path.
I always get an NSCannontCreateScriptCommandError (or something like that) for the
make new attachment... line of code. I don't know much about Applescript, so maybe this will be easy for someone?

The Applescript CODE from Script Editor:

tell application "Mail"

(* SPECIFY GENERAL CONTENT OF MESSAGE *)
set bodyvar to return & return & "Test body."
--set addrVar to "bogus@apple.com"
set addrNameVar to "Guinea Pig"

set myrecipient to "bogus@nowhere.com"

set theAttachment to "~/Documents/Test.pdf"

set subjectvar to "Email with Attachment!"

set mymail to (make new outgoing message at the beginning of outgoing messages with properties {subject:subjectvar, content:bodyvar})
tell mymail to make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {name:addrNameVar, address:myrecipient}

tell content
make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachment} at before the first word of paragraph 0
end tell

set visible of mymail to true



end tell

Test.pdf is a real file in my Documents folder.

Thanks in advance!

[Brass]

Just a guess (not having tried to use your code), but I would think that AppleScript would be unable to interpret the "~" in your file path. Certainly in ObjectiveC you have to expand the tilde to the full file path before using it (using [string expandTildeInPath] or something similar).

Try it with the fully qualified path name. The tilde character is usually used for the shell which then expands it, and in more recent times other programs have taken it on, but I doubt AppleScript would know what to do with it.

[macrophyllum]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get the same error.

Any other suggestions folks?

[Diggory Laycock]

Two things:

1 - The user may not want to use mail.app

2 - Sometimes (in fact often) Cocoa apps do not support the "Make new x with y, z" syntax.

you may need to do:

make new X
make new Y at front of X

or

make new X
set properties of X to {foo: Z}

[macrophyllum]

The original example code I posted above wouldn't even work in Script Editor. I am trying to first get it to work there, and then I will worry about getting to work in my Cocoa application.

Can anyone get the script above to work. I tried Diggory's suggestions, but still no luck.

[Diggory Laycock]

Have a look at:

/Library/Scripts/Mail\ Scripts/Create New\ Message.scpt


for an example of how to attach to new messages

[macrophyllum]

Thanks Diggory, I figured it out be looking at that script!