Commands in Mail?

Question

For many years I have been scripting a lot in HyperCard, but then gave it up.
I am slowly drifting back to AppleScript, but I have a question:
I write a lot of e-mails in German, and would like to effortlessly switch between the German & English dictionaries in the spell checker. QuicKeys is too unreliable in doing it.
Can AS access the pull-down menus & submenus, and make choices?
Thanks,
Klaus

Answer 1

'Can AS access the pull-down menus & submenus, and make choices?' - Ja.
Betrachten Sie ...
tell application "Mail"
activate
set new_message to (make new outgoing message at end of outgoing messages)
set visible of new_message to true
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
click menu item "Spelling…" of menu "Spelling" of menu item "Spelling" of menu "Edit" of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
tell window "Spelling"
tell group 1
set popUp_Value to value of pop up button 1
set tPopUp to pop up button 1
click tPopUp
tell tPopUp
if (popUp_Value is "Deutsch") then
click menu item "English" of menu 1
else
click menu item "Deutsch" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
delay 0.25
click button 1
end tell
end tell
... oder ...
tell application "Mail"
activate
set new_message to (make new outgoing message at end of outgoing messages)
set visible of new_message to true
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
click menu item "Rechtschreibung…" of menu "Rechtschreibung" of menu item "Rechtschreibung" of menu "Bearbeiten" of menu bar item "Bearbeiten" of menu bar 1
tell window "Rechtschreibung"
tell group 1
set popUp_Value to value of pop up button 1
set tPopUp to pop up button 1
click tPopUp
tell tPopUp
if (popUp_Value is "Deutsch") then
click menu item "English" of menu 1
else
click menu item "Deutsch" of menu 1
end if
end tell
end tell
delay 0.25
click button 1
end tell
end tell
  Mac OS X (10.4.4)