<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Hello, Pierre --<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">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.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">[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. đ˘]</div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Thank you <i>so much</i> 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!<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">-- Erik</div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">------<br></div><div>**2023-07-15 14:26 | [Pierre Igot](mailto:<a href="mailto:mailmate@latext.com">mailmate@latext.com</a>)**:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Hi,<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">For what itâs worth, I too find it annoying that MailMate cannot properly remember my columns â in my case, my column widths for the combined Inbox in widescreen layout â 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).<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">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). Thatâs basically all thatâs needed in my case. Obviously, depending on which columns you have and what you prefer, your steps and values will vary.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">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.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Iâm sharing this just in case itâs useful (with adaptations) for anyone else⌠Itâs better than nothing, like I said, in the meantime.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Keyboard Maestro is a great tool to âfixâ 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 doesnât do a bad job of automating something that is tedious and challenging to have to do right manually every time.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Pierre<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">MACRO:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yt1ypwwtlewuulbsqzix2/macro.jpg?rlkey=jfd3zrljdag0xzn1eq6253eho&dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/yt1ypwwtlewuulbsqzix2/macro.jpg?rlkey=jfd3zrljdag0xzn1eq6253eho&dl=0</a><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Adjust Inbox Columns<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Triggered by any of the following:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">The Status Menu is selected<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Will execute the following actions:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">If All Conditions Met<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Front window title contains âInboxâ<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Execute the Following Actions:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Resize Front Window to Pixels<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">In MailMate<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">To: 2885 horizontally, 1560 vertically.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Move and Click and Drag<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">At (1684,500) from the top left corner of the front window.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">And drag absolute (WINDOW(0,Right)-1305,815).<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Move and Click and Drag<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">At (1362,85) from the top left corner of the front window.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">And drag relative (-150,0).<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Move and Click and Drag<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">At (913,85) from the top left corner of the front window.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">And drag relative (300,0).<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Otherwise, Execute the Following Actions:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Display Text Briefly<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">Bring main window to front<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">On 15 Jul 2023, at 4:24, Alexandre Takacs wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">> One can wish⌠One of my major per peeve for the past 3 years or so :/<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">>> Somehow, Iâd hoped that the massive rewrite wouldâve solved the Forgetful Columns problem, but I guess not.<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;"><br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">--<br></div><div style="font-family:menlo, consolas, monospace;">LATEXT: Literature, music and visuals / LittĂŠrature, musique et graphisme - 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