I am actually in southwest Nova Scotia, so a bit farther away, although at the scale of North America as a whole, we are indeed “neighbours”. We haven’t had any flooding here, but I am sorry to hear about the devastation in your area. With global warming accelerating, I am afraid we are in for very turbulent times indeed.
My poor Betalogue site has been neglected for years. With the slo-mo collapse of Twitter, I’ve moved my tech observations to Mastodon (@betalogue@toot.community), but I still hope to go back to real blogging some day, which will first involve revamping my old (very dated) web site. Life, work and all that have meant that I haven’t had much time for this in recent years. GUI scripting is indeed a rather frustrating process, but I find that Keyboard Maestro is an excellent alternative in many situations. I have tons of macros designed to “fix” the UI flaws and deficiencies of many apps. Even MailMate, which is mostly an excellent and well-behaved Mac app, can use some KM-assisted lubrification at times. Glad I could help. Pierre On 15 Jul 2023, at 17:07, Erik Mueller-Harder wrote: > Hello, Pierre -- > > I appreciate your Betalogue: I've read it vis RSS for years! And we're > neighbors: I'm about 50km south of Quebec in Vermont. I hope you survived > the recent flooding unscathed. > > [Though our house and property were largely spared, our town and the > surrounding towns and small cities were devastated. Though the state has > qualified for federal disaster relief and though FEMA funds will begin > trickling in before too long, neither of these helps the small businesses, > which were just beginning to recover from COVID lockdowns and from flooding > about ten years ago; they're the lifeblood of these small towns, and they're > in a Very Bad Way. 😢] > > Thank you *so much* for your KM macro. I use Keyboard Maestro all the time, > but I've avoided GUI scripting for so long that I'd almost forgotten you > could do this sort of thing! I will very happily tailor your script for my > MM forgetful-column needs. Hooray! > > -- Erik > > ------ > **2023-07-15 14:26 | [Pierre Igot](mailto:mailm...@latext.com)**: >> Hi, >> >> For what it’s worth, I too find it annoying that MailMate cannot properly >> remember my columns — in my case, my column widths for the combined Inbox in >> widescreen layout — and I do hope that Benny eventually finds a way to fix >> this, but in the meantime, I have a Keyboard Maestro macro command that >> readjusts my column widths after relaunch (i.e. when they are forgotten most >> of the time, although strangely, not 100% of the time). >> >> The macro works for MY preferred column layout in the message list, within >> the widescreen layout for the mail viewer window. It makes the Source >> Account column narrower and the Subject column wider (which pushes all >> remaining columns farther to the right). That’s basically all that’s needed >> in my case. Obviously, depending on which columns you have and what you >> prefer, your steps and values will vary. >> >> The macro also assumes that my width for the message pane on the right >> remains the same, which in my experience it does when quitting and >> relaunching MM. (The X values need to be adjusted if the width of the >> message pane on the right changes.) As a first step, the macro makes sure >> that the whole window has my preferred size (2885 x 1560), but I find that >> this too tends not to be forgotten by MM, so that step is not really >> necessary. >> >> I’m sharing this just in case it’s useful (with adaptations) for anyone >> else… It’s better than nothing, like I said, in the meantime. >> >> Keyboard Maestro is a great tool to “fix” software when the software maker >> is unwilling or unable to do so, for whatever reason. KM obviously cannot >> help for everything, but in this case it doesn’t do a bad job of automating >> something that is tedious and challenging to have to do right manually every >> time. >> >> Pierre >> >> MACRO: >> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yt1ypwwtlewuulbsqzix2/macro.jpg?rlkey=jfd3zrljdag0xzn1eq6253eho&dl=0 >> >> Adjust Inbox Columns >> >> Triggered by any of the following: >> >> The Status Menu is selected >> >> Will execute the following actions: >> >> If All Conditions Met >> Front window title contains “Inbox” >> >> Execute the Following Actions: >> >> Resize Front Window to Pixels >> In MailMate >> To: 2885 horizontally, 1560 vertically. >> >> Move and Click and Drag >> At (1684,500) from the top left corner of the front window. >> And drag absolute (WINDOW(0,Right)-1305,815). >> >> Move and Click and Drag >> At (1362,85) from the top left corner of the front window. >> And drag relative (-150,0). >> >> Move and Click and Drag >> At (913,85) from the top left corner of the front window. >> And drag relative (300,0). >> >> >> Otherwise, Execute the Following Actions: >> >> Display Text Briefly >> Bring main window to front >> >> >> >> >> >> On 15 Jul 2023, at 4:24, Alexandre Takacs wrote: >> >>> One can wish… One of my major per peeve for the past 3 years or so :/ >>> >>>> Somehow, I’d hoped that the massive rewrite would’ve solved the Forgetful >>>> Columns problem, but I guess not. >> -- LATEXT: Literature, music and visuals / Littérature, musique et graphisme - www.latext.com BETALOGUE: Blog - www.betalogue.com | Twitter: @betalogue | Mastodon: @betalogue@toot.community FAUX AMIS : Site sur les faux amis anglais-français - www.fauxamis.fr | Twitter: @Pierre_Igot _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
