Support send new mail without switching to Outlook app
xeric opened this issue · 5 comments
As raised in this post, I open an ticket for tracking if I can find way to do it.
Hmm so I just tried using BetterTouchTool for this, and when doing the standard "Send Shortcut to Specific App" it works great without focusing the main Outlook app!
I first send the shortcut and then launch the app to make the window appear in front. See the attached pictures for how it's set-up. I'm not sure how BTT is actually sending the shortcuts though.
As you know, BTT is a native application run can write any kind of native logic to do things, there may be some API that OS provided to invoke application I guess, but inside Alfred app, we do not have such powerful implementation to do complex logic, Alfred plugin is still running above a plugin context of Alfred App with a Python 2.
I've found some applescript api which can call send email API that provided by Microsoft Outlook, but it will popup a confirm window first time in Outlook because of security reason.
I'll implement one version and check with you if it is what you want.
I've almost done the feature development, and have local test for it.
The only thing we should take care is when first time we using olknew to send a mail in inline mode, Outlook will popup a warning dialog tell you some security hint, like below screenshot, just check the 'Don't show this message again' and next time you won't get this dialog again.
One more thing is: to get best use experience, I limited this feature only works in Alfred 3+ version, for V2 I will disable this feature.
Thanks a lot xeric! Works great, love to be able to use pure Alfred instead of going into the Outlook monolith :)
The compromise with no GUI is already fine, as I'm guessing getting the compose-window to open would indeed activate the main Outlook window as well?